Woody Harrelson suffers a motorcycle accident before interview with Conan O’Brien

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Woody Harrelson has admitted that he “crashed” his motorcycle on the way to a new interview with Conan O’Brien.

The 62-year-old actor recently appeared at O’Brien’s Need a friend Podcast – in addition to his Bottom up Co-star Ted Danson – with a bandaged hand.

“I think we should address the obvious,” said the moderator. “Woody, we started a little later than we thought 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. He described the “embarrassing” incident, explaining that he “passed this Tesla on the left, which I thought was going a little slow, but I didn’t realize it was going slow because it was turning left.”

Confirmation that the White men can’t jump As the star was riding a motorcycle, O’Brien asked if that was his primary mode of transportation.

“I always feel like the shortest distance between two points in LA is by motorcycle, so I usually take the motorcycle,” Harrelson said. “But today it wasn’t very fast.”

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

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

After O’Brien jokingly noted that Harrelson’s hand was wrapped like “a cartoon character,” Danson admitted it was his work.

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“That’s because I wrapped it up and thought it looked more fun that way,” Danson replied.

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

Harrelson and Danson previously starred together in the NBC sitcom Bottom upwhich ran for eleven seasons from 1982 to 1993. The actors have come together again after more than three decades to create their new Bottom up Podcast Where everyone knows your name – a reference to the series’ theme song.

For each episode, the actors meet with special guests to gain deeper insights beyond the highlights of their careers.

As part of O’Brien’s team Coco Enterprises and SiriusXM, the podcast has already welcomed Will Arnett as its first guest. Future guests include Martin Short, Jane Fonda, Laura Dern, Eric Andre and Mary Steenburgen.