'Euphoria' star Angus Cloud says he broke his skull after falling into a construction pit and spent 5 days in the ICU 'loaded off morphine'

• "Euphoria" star Angus Cloud said that he got the scar on his head from breaking his skull in 2013.
• Cloud said he fell into a construction pit and the injury required screws and a plate put into his head.

"Euphoria" star Angus Cloud detailed the injury that resulted in a broken skull and five days in the ICU back in 2013.

The actor, known for playing a drug dealer named Fez with a soft side in HBO's hit drama series "Euphoria," has a curved scar that's visible on the left side of his head.

In a new cover story for Variety published on Wednesday as part of the publication's Young Hollywood 2022 issue, Cloud spoke in-depth about what he experienced after falling into a construction pit.

"I broke my skull on Friday the 13th," Cloud said, explaining that he fell into a ditch at least 10 feet deep while walking alone in the dark in Oakland after hanging out with friends.

"I woke up 12 hours later at the bottom," he said. "I was trapped. I eventually climbed out after — I don't know how long. It was hella hard to climb out, because my skull was broken, but my skin wasn't, so all the bleeding was internal, pressing up against my brain. But they wasn't gonna find me down there. I found myself. Or God found me, whatever you want to call it."

Cloud told Variety that he was approximately 14 or 15 at the time and though his fingers were broken, he didn't feel any pain because he "was in survival mode."

With blurry vision, the actor said he took the bus home to his mom's house and she took him to a children's hospital.

"I would have died," he said. "She gave me some water, and I started throwing up hella mouthfuls of crimson red blood. Shit was crazy."

"They saved my life," Cloud said of the hospital workers. "That's what the scar's from. They cut my head open, they put some screws and a plate over where I broke my skull and — shit, sealed me back up, and that was that."

The actor said that he spent five days in the ICU "loaded off morphine," did physical and speech therapy, and felt "blessed to just have minor brain damage."

During a virtual press junket for season two of "Euphoria" in January, Cloud confirmed to Insider that his real-life scar was incorporated into Fez's backstory.

In the season two premiere, young Fez was shown accidentally getting hit in the head by a crowbar that his grandma was using to beat up drug dealers.

Cloud told Insider that he was "stoked" when he learned that his fan-favorite character Fez would get an origin story in the latest season.

"The opening scene is just a work of art in itself," he said. "But just how they added in how I got my scar, they made up a whole reason in my backstory of how I got this scar and I was like 'Damn, that's sick.' It's a real scar."