Nina Dobrev Is a 'Little Ahead of Schedule' in Her Recovery from Dirt Bike Accident, but 'There's Still a Ways to Go' (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Nina Dobrev.Photo:River Callaway/Variety via Getty

River Callaway/Variety via Getty

Nina Dobrevis making progress as she recovers from herdirt bike accident.

Speaking to PEOPLE at the Shiseido Blue Project 4th Annual Beach Clean-Up in Huntington Beach, Calif., on Wednesday, Aug. 7, theVampire Diariesstar, 35, gave an update on how she’s healing from the May incident.

“I think I’m doing pretty well,” she says, adding that doctors “were pretty surprised” at how fast she was recovering. “I’m a little ahead of schedule in terms of healing, but it is still a very long process.”

Nina Dobrev at the SHISEIDO Blue Project Beach Clean-Up.River Callaway/Variety via Getty

Dobrev tells PEOPLE she tore her ACL, meniscus and fractured her tibial plateau while out for a dirt bike ride that landed her in the hospital.

“I didn’t realize it meant nine months to a year of recovery. So I’m only on month, maybe three and a half now,” she says.

“So there’s still a ways to go. And a lot of times at this point in the healing process, people get re-injured because they feel fine. And so they start doing normal things. So I have to kind of remind myself that I’m still healing and there’s still a little bit of time to go.”

Nina Dobrev and Shaun White step out from the Ritz hotel in Paris.Aissaoui Nacer / BACKGRID

Aissaoui Nacer / BACKGRID

“Like I said, I’d never been before, so I had no idea how much walking there is.”

ThoughDobrev and Whitebriefly met in 2012, it wasn’t until 2019 that they were formally introduced. In April 2020, they went Instagram official.

Nina Dobrev recovering from bike accident.Nina Dobrev/Instagram

Nina Dobrev/Instagram

The couple were seen leaving the Ritz Hotel in Paris on July 28, the same day she posted anInstagram updatefull of clever puns.

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“Glad I don’t KNEE’D those crutches anymore. They finally got me Christopher WALKen. Okay, dad jokes aside… ‘Brace yourself’ this is a long video and even longer caption. Last one 😂🫣,” she began as the lengthy caption to the post.

In the upload, Dobrev admitted that OlympianLindsey Vonnopening up about her recentknee surgeryinspired her to share her story.

After saying her accident seemed to be a sign from the universe “telling me to slow down,” the actress wrote, “Since I started walking & traveling a bit I’ve been feeling much more positive, I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel💫.”

source: people.com