A Hollywood icon is opening up about getting hit by a drunk driver. The experience occurred when he was just 18.
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Before he was Deadpool, Ryan Reynolds was just a teen hoping to enjoy a night out on the town. Unfortunately, his night wouldn't go anywhere as he planned. Reynolds revealed in a GQ video that he was out at a bar.
"When I was 18, I left a bar, and I'd had a beer," Reynolds said. Due to drinking, Reynolds decided against driving home, despite it just being four blocks away. But in a tragic twist of events, a drunk driver hit the Hollywood icon while he was walking home.
The injuries were so great that he spent a month in the hospital.
Hollywood Icon Opens Up About Accident
"I spent four weeks in the hospital," Reynolds recalled. "Oh, yeah, broke every bone in my left side. He hit me so hard that his car was not operational." He thanked the doctors "for putting me back together so kindly."
It's not the first time that Reynolds has opened up about the accident. In 2011, he previously reflected on the injuries and their lasting impact.
"I remember my dad sitting there ... [with] a vomit tray. And I guess I had been heaving in my unconscious," Reynolds said at the time. "Since then, I've been a rickety, broken mess."
It's likely that those old injuries have made him feel more rickety the older that he has gotten. While he's done stunt work in the past, he's also cut down on it in recent years as well.
"I think it's important to do as much of [the stunt work] yourself as you can, but I'll step aside when there's something that's just too gnarly and there's a trained professional ready to go," Reynolds previously said.
He further added, "You're not allowed to eat Advil like cereal. Things start to hurt. After I turned 35, being thrown onto cement wasn't hilarious anymore. It had been upgraded to hell."
