Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test season 4 was thrilling from start to finish — but what happened behind the scenes?

The newly-minted winners, Shawn Johnson East and Gia Giudice, exclusively told Us Weekly what viewers didn’t see on TV, including every injury the cast sustained.

“I had a concussion. [My husband] Andrew [East] broke two ribs and possibly his nose,” Shawn, 33, exclusively recalled after the Thursday, November 20, finale. “Eric Decker slipped a disc. Mark Estes had cauliflower ear. Christie Pearce Rampone had pneumonia.”

Gia, 24, chimed in too, saying, “Jussie Smollett also had a lung infection. Eva [Marcille] quite literally almost died, which was terrifying.”

Shawn recalled during the “backwards dive” challenge, she and Brianna LaPaglia “had full body bruises.” She

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