Nightmare Before Chirstmas Sia Is Counting Her Blessings

How her beloved son survived a horror crash.

- Ellen Mackenzie

The festive season is meant to be a time of joy and celebration, but when leading lady Sia Trokenheim came to shoot her new movie Kiwi Christmas, the distraught star was living a mother’s worst nightmare.

A day before filming started, the Step Dave star’s five-year-old son Terenzo was hit by a car while out riding his bike on the winding streets of Auckland’s Titirangi. “I heard a big truck take off, then I heard the screeching of the car and then screaming,” recalls Sia, 38, who is also mother to 18-month-old daughter Tosca and stepson Bruno, 11.

Rushing up the street with her husband Andre, 40, the actress didn’t know what to expect. “I knew seeing what was in front of that car could change my life forever,” she recalls, shaking her head.

“I could have lost my son. But there he was, sitting up and covered in so much blood, I could barely see his face. Immediately, I started being really practical about it and thought, ‘OK, he’s sitting up and screaming. That’s a good thing – he hasn’t broken his spine or neck.’”