Kevin Hartis on the road to recovery following the Sunday car crash that left him with“major back injuries.”
Hart’slongtime friendTiffany Haddishgave an update on the comedian’s recovery at the Harper’s Bazaar Icons party on Friday night.
“He’s okay. He’s doing fine,” Haddish toldEntertainment Tonight. “As far as I know, from the last I heard, he’s fine.”
The actress, 39, added, “He’s already walking. He’s good,” noting that Hart’s “back gonna hurt.”
Haddish also said that Hart, 40, once teased her about her own injury.
“He was making fun of me because I tore my meniscus,” she recalled toET. “I was wearing a boot while we were doing press forSecret Life of Pets 2.I had a sleeve on my leg, a brace, and he was making fun of me, talking about, ‘Tiffany, you ain’t gonna get no man. Ain’t no man gonna want you with a brace on your leg. You need to get the surgery.’ And I said, ‘I don’t have time to get surgery. I’m gonna let my body do what it do and heal itself.’ ”
“And look, I’m rocking high heels and I’m walking … And now I’m gonna make fun of you,” she jokingly warned Hart. “When you get back, moving good, Kevin, I’m coming for you. I’m coming for your back.”
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Recently-released audio from the 911 callmade after Hart’s car crash revealed the actor was “not coherent at all” following the incident.
The comedian was injured after the vehicle’s driver, friend Jared Black, lost control and crashed through wooden fencing just before 1 a.m. on Mulholland Highway in Malibu, a spokesperson for the California Highway Patrol said.
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The blue Barracuda crashed about 10 feet off the road and into a ditch, leaving Black and Hart, a passenger, with “major back injuries,”TMZreported on Sunday.
Black was “determined not to be under the influence of alcohol,” authorities toldEntertainment Tonight.
A source previously told PEOPLE that Hart is currentlyrecovering after undergoing surgery.
Hart’s wife, Eniko Parrish, told TMZ reporters outside the hospital Hart was staying at that herhusband is doing “great”and is expected to make a full recovery.
source: people.com
