Live to Tell: The Long Road Home
48 Hours
CBS News
4.1 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Sebastien Bellin, an international basketball star-turned tech entrepreneur, was nearly killed in the March 2016 Brussels airport terror attack. His recovery is detailed over the course of eight months after the attack left him with shattered bones and torn muscles. “48 Hours" correspondent Vladimir Duthiers reports.
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| 0:00.0 | Just then, something rippled the surface of the black water. |
| 0:13.0 | See that? My brother whispered. |
| 0:16.0 | Something really big is out there, I squealed. |
| 0:19.0 | My dad's face became very serious. Maybe he was even a little |
| 0:23.0 | scared himself. What if it comes after us? My cousin Bill cried. You want to grow up experiencing |
| 0:29.8 | those things that dads do. You just can't picture not being part of their life. |
| 0:40.3 | You know, you can't picture not being there for them. |
| 0:44.3 | Cecilia, monsters are very real. |
| 0:46.3 | No, they are not. |
| 0:48.3 | Vanessa, are monsters real? |
| 0:49.3 | No. |
| 0:50.3 | They aren't. |
| 0:51.3 | Are you sure? |
| 0:52.3 | Let me see. Our monsters wheel. Are you sure? Not many people get to pinpoint that specific point in their life when, you know, your |
| 1:15.1 | life changed. |
| 1:16.1 | I'm thinking I got to make it. |
| 1:26.6 | I got to make it. I got to make make it, I gotta see my daughters again. |
| 1:32.3 | I gotta, I gotta see my girls. |
| 1:37.3 | The whole time you're just, you're fixated on that one thing and you don't, |
| 1:41.3 | you don't want to let any negative thoughts into your mind at all. |
| 1:47.0 | You're about to die. |
| 1:51.5 | I can remember just fix it on a point in the ceiling and just being like, okay, no, |
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