Woody Harrelson has described himself as “very lucky” to have walked away from a motorcycle accident he experienced in June.
During Tuesday’s episode of the Where Everybody Knows Your Name podcast, Harrelson and co-host Ted Danson spoke to their former Cheers co-star Kelsey Grammer about the ordeal, with Grammer sharing his own motorbike stories.
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“Here’s another example of you two renegades, is your motorcycles, both of you,” Danson said. “Woody, who I, I saved his life the other day, he came in wounded from a very serious motorbike—”
“I heard something about this and thought, what the hell?” Grammer quipped, before adding: “So did you land on your hand, is that what happened?”
When Harrelson confirmed that he had, Grammer said he was “sorry” about the injury, to which Danson said: “It could have been much worse.”
Harrelson added: “No, no, I’ll tell ya, I ended up very, very lucky.”
Speaking of luck, Danson said he remembered that Grammer used to jump onto his motorcycle while only wearing shorts, a T-shirt and flip-flops. The Becker actor then said that if he remembered correctly, Grammer was previously run off the road while on his motorbike by someone who was “p***** off.”
“Oh yeah, in New York City that happened. That’s happened a couple of times around the country, I’ve been across country a couple of times. There was one trucker who I was drafting off of and he didn’t like me doing that so he would drive off into the shoulder a little bit and spray pebbles into my face, you know, 100 miles an hour. I thought, ‘Oh this is fun,'” Grammer explained. Drafting off is a technique used by cyclists and motorcyclists to reduce the amount of air resistance they experience when riding.
“I actually saw him pull into a truck stop, I followed him, I walked up to him at the counter where he was having breakfast and said, ‘Excuse me, I understand you have an issue about this,’ I said, ‘Honestly, I’m trying to make the next couple 100 miles in as little stress as possible, drafting off of you was really helping me. Would you mind if maybe we arranged this so we’re both happy about it?’ and he said, ‘No, OK, I’d be glad to help you.'”
Harrelson went into further detail about his accident during a June appearance on the Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend podcast. Harrelson explained he’d taken a “tumble” while riding his motorcycle to the studio.
“I think a tumble is a fair term. I did go over my handlebars,” he told O’Brien and co-host Sona Movsesian.
“I was honestly, and uh, embarrassingly, I was passing this Tesla on the left that I felt was moving a little slow, but didn’t realize that he was moving slow because he was taking a left.”
The incident with the car made Harrelson late for his interview with the television host, with O’Brien and his team being concerned for the actor’s safety before they got the all-clear.
“We lost some time while people were figuring out [if you’re] alive, um, your soul had to re-enter your body,” O’Brien joked.
“Did you think for a second, while you were going over the hood of the Tesla, ‘this is going to be a huge problem?’ Or were you thinking the whole time, ‘I’m alright’?”
The True Detective star replied: “I always thought I’d be OK. I just felt like there was some pain involved.”
O’Brien then called attention to Harrelson’s hand, which he described as “wrapped up like someone in a cartoon.”
“I did it,” Danson chimed in. “I thought it looked funnier that way.”
“Let me get this straight,” O’Brien said. “All of your first-aid training is helping people in a way that will look funny?”
“Yeah,” he replied.
According to Harrelson, he bumped into Danson in the bathroom ahead of the show and asked him: “Didn’t you play a doctor, right?”
“He says, ‘Yeah, I also played a lawyer so we can sue the guy,'” Harrelson said.
“His confidence, his demeanor, everything about the way he does it makes you feel like ‘yes, I’m in the best possible hands.'”
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