Jorma Taccone is recovering after a dangerous fall.
During the new episode of The Lonely Island & Seth Meyers Podcast, the 48-year-old comedian, writer, and actor revealed that he’s currently unable to walk after falling 20 feet from a ladder on the property of his home in Connecticut.
Keep reading to find out more…While appearing from a hospital bed, Jorma detailed the scary incident that occurred inside a barn.
“One of the projects I wanted to do this summer was I wanted to build… there’s a barn, and the back half of the barn has this big white wall. I was like, this is great, we can do a big mural,” Jorma told his co-hosts Seth Meyers, Andy Samberg, and Akiva Schaffer, adding that he “borrowed tons of ladders” to work on this project.
“I was painting this barn, and as a final touch, I was like, I should hang these lights that will go around the eve of the barn to highlight the barn. I was doing that on the day,” Jorma continued, noting that it was also the same day as his 5-year-old daughter’s birthday party.
When his wife Marielle Heller asked why he was “doing this now,” Jorma persisted and continued working on the project.
“I’m using this ladder that my neighbor let me borrow, and he was like, ‘Hey, this ladder is bad, like, you shouldn’t use this ladder. This doesn’t have a footing thing,’ I was like, ‘It’ll be good,’” Jorma recalled. “I’m almost done, I’ve done most of the [barn].”
“When this happens, I’m probably 20 feet off the ground on this very rickety ladder and I have it diagonal. The legs are not good, the base of the ladder is not good,” he continued, before feeling the ladder “give way” and that it “started to go” down under him.
“In this moment, my life flashes before my eyes, I’m like, oh no, I’ve got to get off this ladder. I had enough time as I’m falling to be like, I’m going to die,” Jorma said. “I drop, I look over, I see the yard, I’m like, this is going to hurt a lot. I fall straight on my butt, taking all of the impact on my butt. Then I do a lot of screaming and cursing. Keep in mind, it’s my daughter’s fifth birthday party, so it wasn’t the coolest way to start the day. I’m like, ‘Call an ambulance!’”
Jorma said that he felt “sort of numb” as he sat on the ground waiting for help and noted that he was “tangled up in the ladder” as well.
After being taken to the hospital, doctors told Jorma that he had “shattered my pelvis on my lefthand side pretty badly” and that his “sacrum has detached from my spine.”
“A disc is bad now, so they have to chuck that out,” he added. “It takes a while to schedule the surgery because they wanted to do the front part and back part as well.”
Jorma went on to say that recovery time might be around six months and while he’s already gotten up with assistance, he’ll still need “acute rehab” to fully recover.
We wish Jorma Taccone a speedy recovery.
Source: justjared.com