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Dean Winters - known as Mayhem in Allstate Insurance commercials - says he hasn't been able to take a step without being in pain for 12 YEARS after multiple amputations due to bacterial infection
Daily Mail UK ^ | November 03, 2021 | JUSTIN ENRIQUEZ, ADAM LEVY

Posted on 07/30/2025 7:16:14 AM PDT by Red Badger

Winters had contracted a bacterial infection which lead him into cardiac arrest for over two minutes while he was in an ambulance ride across Central Park

He was able to be revived by paramedics but got gangrene which resulted in two of his toes and half a thumb being amputated

He recently said: 'I haven’t taken a step since 2009 without being in pain . 'I’ve got neuropathy on, you know, on a whole different level where I can’t feel my hands and my feet. But if I stepped on a pebble, it’s like I go through the roof'

Winters also said he originally turned down the Allstate Insurance role because he was undergoing a 10th surgery but he said the company was 'relentless'

He said: 'It’s crazy if you look in the Webster dictionary, the Old English definition of the word "mayhem" is "one with amputations"'

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He is known for starring as Mayhem in the Allstate Insurance advertising campaign.

And Dean Winters knows all to well what the effect of a whirlwind of chaos can cause someone in their actual life.

The 57-year-old actor has revealed that he has been in constant pain since undergoing multiple amputations following a bacterial infection.

He told Page Six on Tuesday: 'I haven’t taken a step since 2009 without being in pain.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Military/Veterans; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: deanwinters; mayhem
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To: Jumpmaster

I remember that one!..............


41 posted on 07/30/2025 10:33:38 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Its the weirdest thing, through fall of last year a neighbor and myself couldnt keep the traps clear like they were just lined up to get in. I was expecting to get swarmed this spring like every other year but nothing so far.

Ive seen them running around near me and Ive changed bait a couple of times from things like sunflower seeds and peanut butter to chicken but so far the dogs nightly patrols seem to be keeping them away. Ive caught a pail full of possums and oddly a woodchuck in a cage baited with salmon.

You would think that I would be celebrating but I suspect that they are responding less to me and my dogs efforts than they are to the nearest coyote packs interest in the area around the farm. I could have sworn that I saw one carrying a large ACME magnet while pushing a catapult the other day and we dont even have road runners but we do have sheep and at least the racoons dont really bother them.


42 posted on 07/30/2025 10:44:39 AM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hivemind liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives select servants.)
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To: gnarledmaw

See post 23..................😁


43 posted on 07/30/2025 10:46:49 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Sorry to hear that, but I always hated those negative ads. Whatever they were selling, I didn’t want it.


44 posted on 07/30/2025 11:25:47 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Verginius Rufus
...bringing duck to eat at a tailgate party for a University of Oregon football game

Now THAT'S entertainment! 😊

45 posted on 07/30/2025 11:30:23 AM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: Jim W N

The ads are for Allstate home insurance.

They are comical and entertaining.

He portrays a different type of disaster in each ad....


46 posted on 07/30/2025 11:35:07 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger
They are comical and entertaining.

I know but I got tired of them and at some point started disliking them. Too negative and graphic. (BTW, insurance companies WANT you to be scared so you will buy their product.)

47 posted on 07/30/2025 11:41:12 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Red Badger

In NYS it’s illegal to relocate trash pandas.

But if you hire someone licensed to trap them the animals are likely to be euthanized.

So I’d never advise anyone to hire someone. 🦝


48 posted on 07/30/2025 11:44:26 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: mewzilla

Jeez, how could I forget the Mayhem cat ad...

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/oFiP/allstate-mayhem-cat-featuring-dean-winters

He does a great mew!


49 posted on 07/30/2025 11:47:31 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: montag813

It’s strange Allstate would be “relentless” trying to get him. I would have thought he, and JK Simmons, would be typecast by his roll in Oz. But then again. It was almost 30 years ago.


50 posted on 07/30/2025 11:58:30 AM PDT by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower. )
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To: Red Badger

I think he was also on law and order SUV at one time.

He was also in the first John Wick movie


51 posted on 07/30/2025 12:01:02 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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