Jenifer Lewis was left sobbing in a wheelchair after a horrible fall robbed her of the power to stroll.
The “Black-ish” actor plunged 10 toes from a resort balcony throughout a vacation in Africa two years in the past. She underwent intensive rehabilitation remedy to get her again on her toes, and Lewis has admitted she was an emotional wreck as she tried to push by means of the ache.
“In Nairobi, once they requested me to stroll, you recognize the parallel bars, I couldn’t keep in mind the best way to stroll … ‘How do you do this?’ … I sat down within the wheelchair, and I sobbed. And I heard myself say, ‘You’ll stand up, you’ll stand up, and you’ll stroll — or I’ll kill you myself. You stand up and also you stroll. Come on, child.’ And I walked,” Lewis defined throughout an upcoming look on the “Tamron Corridor Present.”
Lewis beforehand opened up concerning the accident in an interview with Robin Roberts final month, revealing the autumn left her with devastating accidents.
“When the solar units within the Serengeti, there aren’t any streetlights. It’s pitch black. I used to be escorted to the lodge, my room, however I wasn’t given a tour. I ought to’ve been given a tour,” she recalled.
“I laid out my safari garments, and I noticed the infinity pool out on my deck, so I went out. I used to be simply taking in the truth that I used to be again within the Serengeti as soon as once more, and I’m strolling, and hastily – bam – I had fallen 10 toes right into a dry ravine stuffed with boulders and stones and sharp rocks,” she mentioned.
“In fact, I used to be in shock. My proper hip took the affect, my shoulder went up towards a stone. A lightning bolt went by means of my thoughts’s eye proper right here,” Lewis continued.
“In pitch black, I didn’t know I used to be falling. Nothing would transfer. So, I laid there, I mentioned, ‘Transfer your physique, child, come on Jenny, transfer your physique’ … I heard a lion roar. My final thought, as a result of I’m Jenifer Lewis, was, what a headline: The king ate the queen. Items of Jenifer Lewis’ physique being flown again to the States,” she mentioned.
