Ryan Reynolds recalls near-fatal accident that changed his life at 18

Ryan Reynolds is looking back at a serious accident he survived during his late teens.

​In a recent video published by GQ on June 9, the 49-year-old actor said that he spent four weeks in hospital in the 1990s after being hit by a drunk driver.

​“When I was 18, I left a bar and I'd had a beer. 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,'" Reynolds told his Welcome to Wrexham co-star Rob Mac.

​Despite making a responsible choice of not driving while drunk, the situation turned into a dangerous one of the horrible events of his life.

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

​Reynolds shared that the crash left him with severe injuries.

​“As a result of the accident," Reynolds noted he "broke every bone in his left side."

​“He hit me so hard, his car was not operational.”

​The Deadpool actor previously talked about the incident in an interview with CTV News in 2011, per New York Daily News.

​He revealed at the time that he woke several days after the accident.

​“I woke up three days later,” Reynolds said, recalling his father sitting beside him holding a vomiting tray.

​“I guess I had been heaving in my unconscious,” he continued. “And nothing says love like painting someone with three-day-old Gin Rummies. Just soaked the man head to toe in my vomit.”

​Reflecting on the experience, Reynolds said, “I’ve been a rickety, broken mess.”