Mere months after her star turn in 20 Feet from Stardom, the singer was in a car accident so terrible that she spent five months in the hospital and years undergoing rehab. “Clayton said her family sat by her bedside crying profusely while a team of doctors came into the room. ‘I wondered, ‘What the heck is going on?’’ she said. The doctor delivered the news about her legs. ‘They thought I was just going to fall out at that point. But I just asked them, ‘Did anything happen to my voice?’ When they said no, I started singing.'” – The New York Times