Kevin Hart was in a serious car crash last year, where he’s been told he’s lucky to have survived.
However, he recently revealed on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast that he didn’t actually tell the doctors how bad his injuries actually were. He admitted to not telling doctors and nurses how much pain he was really in, out of fear they wouldn’t let him continue things such as walking exercises.
He said in the podcast: “I lied in the hospital because I didn’t want them to know that I was having pain, because I thought that they were gonna stop me from letting me continue to try my walks.
“It was like day seven in the hospital, I had the walker, and it was slow walks but I was dragging. It was upper body, and I was masking it as if I was… feet, because I didn’t want to stop trying.”
The crash caused Kevin to need major spine surgery to fuse his spine, after he was left with fractures from his T10 to his L1 vertebrae.
One of his greatest fears at the time was never being able to go back home to his house, which he claims was an actual possibility. This is probably another reason why he was acting like he was in less pain than he really was, out of fear of never being able to go home. It’s easy to say many others would do the same in his situation.
The 40 year old told Joe: “My biggest cry in life came from the first day that I came home from the hospital, because I never had to see that house again. Like there was an option of me never seeing that home again.
“There was an option of me never walking on that driveway again. There was an option of me never seeing my wife and my kids again.
“It wasn’t like a build-up cry – it was pull up, get out, feet touch the ground, ‘What the f*** just came over me? Boo hoo.’ Like, ‘What the f***, what just happened?’ By the way, a painful cry, because my back was f***ed up.
“It’s not until you get close to that light that you truly respect, that I respect that there are no bad days. Miss me with any bulls***. I’m smiling because I have no reason to be angry because I don’t have to be here.”
You can watch the interview on YouTube below.
