Ryan Reynolds Reveals the Devastating Injuries He Suffered After Being Hit by a Drunk Driver

Ryan Reynolds is looking back on the devastating injuries he suffered after being "run over" by a drunk driver when he was 18 years old.

The Deadpoolactor, 49, recounted his four-week-long hospitalization during a GQ video with his Wrexham AFC co-owner, Rob Mac, revealing that it was a "firmly positive and wise decision" he made that led to disaster.

"When I was 18, I left a bar, and I'd had a beer," Reynolds revealed in the video, published on Tuesday, June 9. "I walked back, and I looked at my car for a second. I thought, ‘You know what, I'm not going to drive anywhere. Even if it's four blocks home, absolutely not.'"

"Instead, I turned around, started to cross the street," he went on, "and I was run over by a drunk driver."

The crash was devastating, as Reynolds "broke every bone" in the left side of his body. "He hit me so hard, his car was not operational," the Marvel star revealed, jokingly adding, "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."

This isn't the first time Reynolds, who is father to three children with wife Blake Lively, has opened up about his near-death experience.

"I woke up three days later," the actor said in a 2011 CTV News interview, as per HuffPost. "I remember my dad sitting there ... [with] a vomit tray. And I guess I had been heaving in my unconscious. And nothing says love like painting someone with three-day-old Gin Rummies. Just soaked the man head to toe in my vomit."



Since the accident, the Van Wilder star said he hasn't been the same physically, despite making a full recovery. "I've been a rickety, broken mess," he admitted.

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This story was originally published June 11, 2026 at 10:59 AM.