Jean Smart was hospitalized last month after taking a nasty fall in New York City while trying to flag down a taxi.
The Emmy-winning “Hacks” star, who is currently in NYC for her 12-week run of “Call Me Izzy,” opened up about the bizarre incident on Thursday’s episode of “Late Night with Seth Meyers.”
“Fourth of July, I went to Macy’s to buy myself a cute little Fourth of July outfit to wear to the fireworks. And I was outside and I was trying to hail a cab, and I saw one. I went, ‘Oh,’ and I tripped over something,” she said.
Smart then dejectedly revealed that she broke her kneecap in half. “On the eighth of July, they screwed it back together,” she said.
Meyers asked Smart if she experienced significant pain after hitting the ground, but she appeared more concerned about paparazzi catching her.
“As I was laying there, I was thinking, ‘Oh God, don’t! Please don’t take a picture, anybody please,’” the 73-year-old said. She continued to recap the incident, noting that she was with her sons when this happened.
“But as I’m sitting on the street waiting for the ambulance, a guy tripped over the same thing,” Smart continued.
Although Jean didn’t name the object that caused her fall, she learned that she wasn’t the first person to be sent to the hospital for it.
”And when I went to the emergency hospital, I mentioned it to the nurse. She said, ‘Well, what did you trip over?’ And I told her. I kind of described what it was. And she said, ‘Oh, I know exactly what you’re talking about because we get one a day.’”
Smart said her older son, Connor, wrote a complaint to the city about this hazardous part of the road and “they immediately went out and fixed it.”
Still, this injury forced Smart to take a break from her one-woman show. Fortunately, since most of the show involved sitting, she was able to get back to work sooner than later, though wearing a leg brace. Smart said she “couldn’t move” with the brace and the crew had to transport her to a chair on stage and then prop her leg up.
In “Call Me Izzy” Smart plays a writer in an abusive relationship who finds herself after turning to poetry. The show, which is playing at Studio 54, will close on Aug. 24.
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