Swede Ali Bulala was a superstar in the skateboarding world.
But a fatal accident in which a friend died upended everything.
– The first thing I thought was that I should have died instead of him, says Bulala in the documentary “Scars on Bulala”.
Swede Ali Bulala broke into the hype and bangs of the international skating world in the mid-nineties.
Along with his team, he embarked on a ten year world tour filled with skateboarding, fame and boundless partying.
But career was turned upside down on March 7, 2007 in Melbourne, Australia.
coma for four months
After a night of partying, Ali Bulala and his friend Shane Cross have a tragic motorcycle accident. The accident was serious and resulted in Cross’s death while Bulala ended up in a coma for four months.
– I’m lying there in the hospital and I don’t understand why I’m lying there. I don’t know how many times I had an accident, then the next time I woke up I would have forgotten about it, says Bulala in the documentary “Scars on Bulala.”
He was sentenced to prison
After he woke up from the coma, Bulala was sentenced to four years in prison for negligence in traffic and causing the death of another. He was also deported from Australia to Sweden.
– The first thing I thought was: I should have died instead of him, everything would have been so much better then. But this was not true. I left as a punishment.