Jenifer Lewis Shares Health Replace After Falling From 10-Ft. Balcony In Africa (Video)
Jenifer Lewis is reputedly recovering properly after a horrifying incident while vacationing in Africa. Earlier this month, the ‘Sad-ish’ enormous title printed that she fell from a 10-foot balcony in 2022.
Lewis spoke referring to the reach-loss of life experience and her disturbing restoration scuttle on ‘ABC Data’ with Robin Roberts. She had saved the incident below wraps till this sit-down. Her rationalization for doing so?
“I didn’t desire y’all to know I had fallen till I could well perchance uncover you the device I received wait on up,” Lewis said.
Jenifer Lewis Shares Video Walking After 2022 Plunge
A week after the interview, on Friday (March 23), she shared a video update with fans. Taking to her Instagram feed, Jenifer Lewis first appeared the use of a walker while strolling down a sidewalk. Before the whole lot, she seems to maintain a ‘battle’ survey on her face, but that swiftly changes when she lifts and throws the walker to the aspect.
She then continues to stroll, bussing a couple of lil’ strikes to Saucy Santana’s ‘Stroll’ music. Within the intervening time, in her caption, she reassured her fans that all turn out to be as soon as properly with Auntie!
“Don’t effort about me y’all! Auntie’s wait on WALKING, speaking, singing and acting a dam idiot!”
Look her properly being update video below.
What Took location To Auntie Jenifer In Africa?
As talked about, the myth about Jenifer Lewis’ tumble from a balcony in November 2022 broke remaining Tuesday. The 67-year-outdated actress described the previous year of her existence as “the hardest.” She educated Robin Roberts that she belief she turn out to be as soon as going to die.
“I didn’t know you shall be capable to be in a affirm to be in that basic ache and be alive,” Jenifer shared. “I went from that high kick standing on my enormous title at the Hollywood Stroll of Reputation, 5 months later, I turn out to be as soon as on the bottom of the Serengeti and that same leg couldn’t transfer.”
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At the time of the autumn, Jenifer Lewis turn out to be as soon as having an correct year. Moreover the Hollywood enormous title, she had additionally wrapped the eighth season of ‘Sad-ish’ and launched her memoir ‘Walking in My Joy: In These Streets,’ per PEOPLE.
Auntie Jen educated Roberts that she had deliberate to retire, transfer wait on home to Missouri and that existence felt “most attention-grabbing,” in particular after her world travels.
Then, one further “outing of a lifetime” to Africa with mates changed her trajectory. Her travels on the continent integrated a scuttle from Cape Town to Rwanda.
“We’re having an correct time, we’re feeling plenty. We’re going the save the screech folk are,” Jenifer said, revealing she even spent time in the mountains with gorillas.
After arriving in Serengeti, Tanzania, she checked into a resort. Although she turn out to be as soon as escorted to her room, she did now not accumulate a tour of it. By nightfall, she said, it turn out to be as soon as pitch sad attributable to the inability of avenue lights in the city. When she stepped exterior her lodge onto a balcony, her outing went from most attention-grabbing to her existence being in anxiety.
“I laid out my safari clothes and I noticed the infinity pool out on my deck. So I went out, I turn out to be as soon as appropriate taking in that I turn out to be as soon as wait on in the Serengeti all over again. And I’m walking and all of a unexpected, I had fallen 10 feet into a dry ravine plump of boulders and stones and energetic rocks. There turn out to be as soon as a home that turn out to be as soon as now not sectioned off and there turn out to be as soon as no signal that said, ‘Warning, 10-foot. tumble.’ “
She turn out to be as soon as “in shock.” Although it “turn out to be as soon as entertaining” to bewitch a “huge breath to shout” that’s what she did, calling for her buddy Laurie.
“My appropriate hip took the impact. My shoulder went up against the stone,” she said. “A lightning trail went thru my mind’s survey. In pitch sad, I didn’t know I turn out to be as soon as falling. nothing would transfer. So I laid there and said, ‘Switch your physique, slight one. Come on Jenny, transfer your physique.’ “
After her buddy flashed a delicate-weight on her, she infamous a Cape buffalo appropriate about a feet away and said she heard a lion cry. At that point, all she could well perchance judge about turn out to be as soon as a headline about being eaten alive. As for the formulation she’s feeling now, Jennifer Lewis is “humbled” and feels indulge in she has “to originate being alive.”
Glimpse a half of the sit-down below.
.@ABC NEWS EXCLUSIVE: “In pitch sad I did now not know I turn out to be as soon as falling.”
Jenifer Lewis opens up to @RobinRoberts about a reach-fatal tumble she took while on her dream creep. Look extra tonight at 8: 30pm ET on @ABCNewsLive and @Hulu. pic.twitter.com/oSMAjsoXog
— Real Morning The USA (@GMA) March 12, 2024
The plump interview is now available on Hulu.
