Umm what do you mean "broke" ???
One problem these cars have as they age is failure of the strut spring perch. That's the disc the spring bottom sits on. Welds fail or the plate rots out, and the spring pushes it right down onto the tire. Is this what happened?

If so, get another strut complete from a donor car.

You need to take apart the bottom ball joint (3 19mm nuts), the brake lines, 3 13mm nuts at the top, the tie rod end (and either knock out the outer joint in the junkyard or unscrew the whole rod, take it home, and knock it apart at home).
You can even leave the wheel on, to wheel it out of the junkyard. Either way, if the strut spring plate collapsed, you'll be replacing the whole thing. There is a repair kit, but installing it is harder and more expensive than replacing the thing with a used one. Plenty of perfectly good late model struts in the junkyard.
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