“It was associated with some pain”

Woody Harrelson said he “crashed” his motorcycle on the way to an interview with Conan O’Brien.

The 62-year-old actor appeared on O’Brien’s “Need A Friend” podcast with a bandaged arm along with his “Cheers” co-star Ted Danson.

Regarding the Hollywood star’s injury, O’Brien said: “I think we should address the obvious.

“Woody, we left a little later than planned because you had a little fall. Can you call that a fall?”

“I think crash is an appropriate term. I actually went over the handlebars,” Harrelson replied.

The Texas-born actor spoke about the “embarrassing” incident, explaining that he “passed this Tesla on the left that I thought was going a little slow, but I didn’t realize it was going slow because it was turning left.”

When O’Brien noticed the injury, he confirmed that Harrelson was indeed riding a motorcycle and asked if that was his usual mode of transportation.

The Hunger Games star added: “Well, I always feel like the shortest route between two points in LA is a motorcycle. So I tend to take that.”

“But today it wasn’t very fast.”

To which O’Brien commented: “Right. Because we lost some time while people were figuring out, ‘Are you alive?'”

Harrelson added: “It was painful – I felt the pain – but I never thought I was going to be killed or anything.”

The TV comedian then joked that Harrelson’s hand was bandaged like “a cartoon” before Danson admitted that he was the reason for the arbitrary bandaging.

“That’s because I wrapped it and thought it looked funnier that way,” Danson joked.

Laughing, Harrelson said, “And we’re in the bathroom and I’m like, ‘You played a doctor, right?’ and (Danson) says, ‘Yeah. I played a lawyer too, so we can sue the guy.'”

Harrelson’s appearance on O’Brien’s podcast comes at a time when fans are speculating whether his Hunger Games character, Haymitch Abernathy, will be the protagonist of the upcoming fifth book.

Author Suzanne Collins confirmed the exciting news earlier this month, announcing that the book will hit shelves on March 18, 2025.

The book picks up on the morning of the 50th Hunger Games, which happened to be the tournament won by Abernathy of District 12, and predates the first novel, which came out in 2008, by 24 years, according to Collins’ publisher Scholastic.