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Ryan Reynolds is looking back on being hit by a drunk driver while walking through Vancouver at 18.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
Reynolds “spent four weeks in the hospital” after the collision “broke every bone in my left side,” he recently told Rob Mac.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
The Deadpool<\/em> star gave a shout-out to the doctor “for putting me back together.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Ryan Reynolds<\/a> survived tragedy and lives to tell the tale.<\/p>\n The story of sustaining gruesome injuries after being hit by a drunk driver isn’t one that Reynolds has told often, though it happened over 30 years ago. But during an interview with Rob Mac<\/a> for GQ<\/em><\/a> published Tuesday, the Deadpool <\/em>star walked back down memory lane to one of the darker spots in his past.<\/p>\n “I got run over by a drunk driver after making a firmly positive and wise decision for a young, 18-year-old male. Spent four weeks in the hospital,” Reynolds said.<\/p>\n “That’s the first time I’ve heard that!” Reynold’s friend and Wrexham AFC co-owner exclaimed.<\/p>\n “Oh yeah, broke every bone in my left side,” Reynolds continued. “He hit me so hard, his car was not operational.”<\/p>\n He jokingly added, “I’d like to thank Dr. Meek at the General Hospital for putting me back together so kindly. Socialized medicine, he couldn’t say no.”<\/p>\n The accident occurred in the Canadian’s hometown of Vancouver. By the time of the crash, he’d appeared on a season of the teen drama Hillside<\/em> (also known as Fifteen<\/em>) and the fantasy series The Odyssey<\/em>. But his career was still very much in its infancy, before the big break of 2002’s Van Wilder<\/em>.<\/p>\n Reynolds identified his age at the time of the crash as 19 in a 2019 interview, explaining in a brief aside, “I was 19 in Vancouver, Canada \u2014 drinking age is different there \u2014 and I’d had a couple of drinks and I didn’t want to get in my car, obviously, because that’s insane. I walked home, and on my way home, I got hit by a drunk driver. I was like, ‘Thanks karma!'”<\/p>\n