Ryan Reynolds opened up about the devastating injuries he suffered after being hit by a drunk driver…

June 29, 2026 by MR JACK

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.

“When I was 18, I left a bar and I’d had a beer,” he said, according to VT. “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.’”

So he started walking, and that’s when a drunk driver hit him.

“Instead, I turned around, started to cross the street and I was run over by a drunk driver,” Reynolds said.

“Broke every bone in my left side”

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’s car was totaled. Reynolds himself didn’t regain consciousness for three days.

“[I] broke every bone in my left side,” he said, describ