A Florida high school softball star left paralyzed from the chest down after her stalker ex-boyfriend allegedly stabbed her more than a dozen times has revealed she’s now miraculously walking again — a year after the heinous attack.
Madison Schemitz, 18, took to Instagram earlier this week to share heart-wrenching footage of her grueling road to recovery after she was severely injured in the stabbing frenzy outside a restaurant in Ponte Vedra Beach last June.
“One whole year! I wish I had the right words to describe this last year,” the teen wrote alongside her post.
“Through all the sleepless nights, secret tears, and the never ending struggle, the last year has been far from easy but my heart is so full.”
“If there’s one thing I’ve learned it is to live in the present, because tomorrow is not promised,” she added.
The clip included footage of Schemitz receiving a standing ovation and raucous applause as she was walked unaided across the stage at her Ponte Verde High School graduation on May 17.
Schemitz’s remarkable healing comes after her and her mother were ambushed allegedly by the teen’s jilted ex-boyfriend, Spencer Pearson, as they left a local restaurant on June 3, 2023.
Pearson is accused of maniacally plunging the knife into his ex 15 times before slicing his own throat in a failed suicide bid. The teen’s mom, Jacki Roge, and an intervening good Samaritan, Kennedy Armstrong, were also hacked in the broad daylight ordeal.
The attack unfolded just days after Schemitz’s mom had reported Pearson to cops, telling them he’d allegedly been stalking her daughter both in person and online.
Roge had claimed her increasingly spooked daughter said Pearson had been following her on her way to school, leaving notes on her car and harassing her on social media.
Pearson and Schemitz had already been broken up for several months prior to the attack.
In the aftermath, Pearson — a former high school football player — spent several weeks in the hospital before being booked into a St. John’s County jail.
His mugshot showed him covered in bandages with a grisly stitched gash across his neck.
It later emerged that Pearson had also attempted suicide weeks earlier and that his parents had sought mental health help for him, court filings show.
Pearson has pleaded not guilty to a slew of charges over the stabbing frenzy, including attempted murder and aggravated battery.
He is currently being held in custody pending trial. The next court hearing in his case is scheduled for June 11.
