Reynolds recently shared the story of a terrifying accident from his teenage years that put him in the hospital for weeks. In a video for GQ with his Welcome to Wrexham co-star Rob Mac, Reynolds walked through the night that changed his life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhen I was 18, I left a bar and I\u2019d had a beer,\u201d he said, according to VT. \u201cI walked back and I looked at my car for a second. I thought, \u2018You know what, I\u2019m not going to drive anywhere. Even if it\u2019s four blocks home, absolutely not.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So he started walking, and that\u2019s when a drunk driver hit him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cInstead, I turned around, started to cross the street and I was run over by a drunk driver,\u201d Reynolds said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reynolds was taken to a hospital in Vancouver, Canada, where doctors spent roughly four weeks treating multiple fractures concentrated on the left side of his body. The force of the collision was so extreme that the driver\u2019s car was totaled. Reynolds himself didn\u2019t regain consciousness for three days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c[I] broke every bone in my left side,\u201d he said, describing his stunned \u201cwhy God?!\u201d reaction when the reality started to set in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Though the accident was life-altering, Reynolds has handled it the way he handles most things, with a joke ready. He gave a nod to the medical team who patched him up: \u201cI\u2019d like to thank Dr. Meek at the General Hospital for putting me back together so kindly. Socialized medicine, he couldn\u2019t say no.\u201dIn a 2011 interview with CTV News, Reynolds opened up about just how long the road to recovery really was. These days, he looks back on that younger version of himself as \u201ca rickety, broken mess,\u201d and reflects on how radically different his story could have been if he\u2019d made a different choice that night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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