At the Oscars, Morgan Freeman was seen with a glove on his left hand. The cause is tragic
The 2023 Oscars ceremony last night offered a lot to take in.
The film Everything Everywhere All At Once won the most prizes, although individuals including Brendan Fraser, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michelle Yeoh, and Ke Huy Quan also had success.
But amid all the glitz, glamour, and awards, there was a Morgan Freeman-related event that perhaps many people at the 95th Academy Awards missed. Thankfully, there were sharp-eyed admirers who noticed it and left numerous comments on social media.
Freeman appeared on stage with Margot Robbie to commemorate Warner Brothers’ 100th anniversary, but he did so while sporting an elbow-length black glove on his left hand. It turned out that there was a very sad explanation for that particular wardrobe choice.
One of his generation’s most enduring and renowned actors is Morgan Freeman. Because of this, fans were perplexed by the fact that he was wearing a black glove when he appeared on stage at the Oscars ceremony last night. Perhaps a preference for style? A reference to a role he previously played?
Well, there is a more gloomy explanation that is actually the case.
Freeman, 85, reportedly has been had to wear the glove ever since he was hurt in a catastrophic vehicle accident in Mississippi in 2008.
One late-night trip home, the Se7en star’s automobile went off the road, flipped many times, and eventually came to rest in a ditch.
Paramedics were on the scene quickly, but they had to use hydraulic cutters to release the actor from his car. Freeman reportedly maintained consciousness the entire time and was cracking jokes with his rescuers.
Nonetheless, the 71-year-old actor needed to be airlifted more than 100 miles from the collision site to a hospital in Memphis due to his moderately bad injuries.
Freeman required four hours of surgery to have his left arm reset after receiving treatment for multiple shattered bones.
Regrettably, the actor had severe shoulder pain and lasting nerve damage as a result of the incident. Freeman was unable to move his limb fully after the collision, which caused it to enlarge and necessitated the use of a compression glove to control the symptoms.
Freeman required four hours of surgery to have his left arm reset after receiving treatment for multiple shattered bones.
Regrettably, the actor had severe shoulder pain and lasting nerve damage as a result of the incident. Freeman was unable to move his limb fully after the collision, which caused it to enlarge and necessitated the use of a compression glove to control the symptoms.
Freeman told People magazine in 2010—two years after the incident—that he had never fully healed from his injury.
It will swell up if you don’t move your hand, the Shawshank Redemption actor warned. “Did you know that your hand moves a million times a day on average?”
I was unaware of Morgan Freeman’s awful vehicle accident, much less the injury he is still dealing with today!
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