Adam Devine’s pinkie toe fell off while he pleasured himself in the bathtub

Adam Devine was hit by a cement truck as a child, leading to painful physical complications that would follow him into adulthood. But the comic actor can still laugh at the accident’s more humorous aftereffects.

“This was one of the first times I masturbated,” Devine started out strong at the outset of Wednesday’s episode of In Depth With Graham Bensinger podcast. “I’m in the bathtub and I couldn’t stand because of my accident, and I just found masturbation, and oh, did I love it.”

Devine detailed how the childhood accident “broke all the bones of my legs, I had horrible, like, it took the skin off, so I had one toe that they were like, ‘It could fall off? Or it could stabilize and you have a toe, we don’t know.'” So after finishing business, Devine realized in horror, “I see a little toe, my little toe, my pinkie toe, just floating in the bathtub.”

To make matters worse, Devine shared that “it was the first time something had come out, and I’m like, ‘What is this! This is fantastic!’ But it’s floating in the water like, ‘Oh, this is gross.'”

Devine said that his toe began to drift about the tub “as I’m trying to get it to dissipate.” When asked by host Graham Besinger how he reacted to the shocking confluence of events, Devine laughed, “I’m thinking that I jerked off so hard that my toe fell off.”

He then detailed how his mother came rushing in, following his screams of panic. Though she told her son to “‘let me get it,'” Devine shot back, “‘Don’t touch the water! Don’t touch the water!'”

Devine shared the traumatic story of his childhood accident with Entertainment Weekly in 2016. A miscommunication between friends over when to cross the street led him to walk straight into the path of an oncoming cement truck. “They say the reason I lived was the bike took the hit first…. I still slid 500 feet. Picked me up under the first two wheels and then spit me out,” he said.

While the actor has been able to mount a wildly successful career in entertainment, beginning with the beloved sitcom Workaholics, which he co-created and starred in, and including memorable spots on films like Pitch Perfect and series like The Righteous Gemstones, he’s never fully recovered from the injury.

Devine revealed to Besinger that three years ago he began “having spasms all over,” saying it now “hurts to sit for too long, it hurts to stand for too long, and it hurts to walk for too long.” His doctors “don’t really know” what’s happening, but “told me I was dying” after a misdiagnosis of stiff-person syndrome. Fortunately, a series of stem cell treatments has left the actor feeling “the best I’ve been now for the past three years.”

You can watch Devine’s full interview above. This episode of In Depth With Graham Bensinger will also debut in broadcast syndication across the U.S. this weekend.