Jean Smart is sharing some more details about her terrible knee injury.
On “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” she revealed what happened when she broke her knee in July and had to take a break from her one-woman Broadway show, “Call Me Izzy.”
“Fourth of July, I went to Macy’s to buy myself a cute little Fourth of July outfit to wear to the fireworks. And I was outside and I was trying to hail a cab, and I saw one. I went, ‘Oh,’ and I tripped over something,” she said.
Smart said her kneecap broke “in half” as a result of the fall.
“As I was laying there, I was thinking, ‘Oh God, don’t! Please don’t take a picture, anybody please,’” she said, adding she was with her sons.
Smart also said that while she was waiting for the ambulance, she saw another person fall “over the same thing.”
“And when I went to the emergency hospital, I mentioned it to the nurse. She said, ‘Well, what did you trip over?’ And I told her. I kind of described what it was. And she said, ‘Oh, I know exactly what you’re talking about because we get one a day.'”
However, thanks to Smart’s older son, Connor, whom she said wrote a complaint to the city, officials finally did something about that hazardous part in the road.
“They immediately went out and fixed it,” she said.
Smart, 73, missed multiple “Call Me Izzy” shows due to her injury. She explained that on July 8, doctors “screwed” her knee back together.
When she eventually returned to the stage, she had to wear a leg brace, which limited her mobility. Fortunately, the one-woman show doesn’t require many dramatic movements from Smart.
However, Smart said she observed a difference in how people responded when she used crutches versus a cane.
“I don’t know what it is. When you’re on crutches, people always go, ‘Oh, bummer. What happened? Are you OK?’ But if you’re on a cane, people go, ‘Are you all right? Is there anything we can do? Would you like to sit?'” she joked, raising her voice for emphasis while talking about the latter.
“Nothing makes you feel older,” she said with a laugh.
On July 8, Smart revealed she injured her knee when she reshared a statement that “Call Me Izzy” posted on social media.
It read, “Jean Smart has injured her knee, and we look forward to having her back on stage as soon as she recovers.”
On her Instagram story, Smart added, “Thank you so much for all of the well wishes. Looking forward to a speedy recovery!”
