Jamie Lynn Spears’ daughter Maddie performed her last rites after a near-fatal ATV accident in February 2017.
The “Sweet Magnolias” star, 35, told People magazine on Wednesday that the then-8-year-old girl, who was in a coma, was “physically sitting up in restraints and tubes” when the priest arrived at her hospital room.
“I was screaming at the doctors, ‘Come now!'” the actress recalled. “Even the priest was like, ‘I’ve never seen anything like this happen.'”
Spears continued, “I knew she was there and I felt all of us praying. We were given a miracle and I don’t take it for granted.”
The “Zoey 101” alum revealed more details to the media about how her eldest daughter survived “against all adversity.”
She recalled witnessing the ATV Polaris accident at her husband Jamie Watson’s Louisiana home.
“We were watching her and we’re still not sure if she was avoiding the dog or what it was,” the former Nickelodeon star said. “She went into the water and me, my father-in-law and my husband jumped in as fast as we could to get her out, but she got stuck.”
Maddie being pulled from the water by emergency responders minutes later was “a scene no one wanted to see,” Spears told the outlet.
“At that point she wasn’t breathing. We thought she was dead,” the “Special Forces” graduate explained, noting that paramedics eventually “checked for a pulse.”
While Maddie was in a coma for two days, Spears decided to have another baby because she was “begging for a sibling.”
Sure enough, when Maddie woke up from her coma, she asked about growing their family.
Spears and Watson, 54, became pregnant with daughter Ivy, now 8, a few months later, and the baby was born in April 2018.
“We always say (Maddie) went to heaven to pick up her sister,” Spears said. “Ivy was like, ‘So, you went through all that to find me?'”
Looking back on this unfortunate accident, Maddy said, “Seeing everyone gather around me made me realize how blessed I am. It really made me appreciate every day.”
The teenager graduated from high school last month and plans to play softball at the University of Southern Mississippi.
