A star of the popular film franchise Pitch Perfect has revealed a startling story involving one of his body parts falling off while he was masturbating.
Adam DeVine now 41, made the jaw-dropping revelation about how ‘one of the first times he masturbated’ as a boy, his pinky toe dropped off.
Of course, there is pretty crucial context to this story, but the alarming details remain the same.
The Hollywood actor, who broke through alongside castmates Skylar Astin, Anna Camp and Bridesmaids star Rebel Wilson, explained at the start of his anecdote that he had broken ‘all the bones in my legs’ after a ‘horrible’ accident as a child where he was hit by a cement truck aged 11.
Doctors told him shortly afterwards that one of his little toes might subsequently ‘fall off’ or ‘stabilise’ – but they didn’t know which was more likely as he recovered from the trauma.
‘So I’m in the bathtub, and I couldn’t stand because of my accident, and I’d just found masturbation, and oh, did I love it, Graham,’ the Isn’t it Romantic actor told his host on the In Depth with Graham Besinger podcast.
‘And so I’m cranking down, and it was the first time something had come out, and I’m like, “What is this?” And I’m like, “Ah! This is fantastic!” But it was floating in the water and I’m like, “Oh, this is gross”.’
After DeVine had finished his, er, business, he was attempting to (in his words) ‘dissipate the jizz’ on the surface of the water, when he noticed his pinky toe was ‘just floating in the bathtub’.
When asked for his initial reaction, the Workaholics creator and star laughed: ‘I’m thinking that I jerked off so hard, my toe fell off – because that’s essentially what happened.’
He then recalled that he was screaming ‘Oh! My toe!’ so loudly that his mother rushed into the bathroom, whereupon she volunteered to fish his toe out the water for him as she tried to reassure him.
Cue a panicked DeVine, who is currently starring in the final season of HBO comedy The Righteous Gemstones, then yelling: ‘Don’t touch the water! Don’t touch the water!’
Besinger then added that while chatting to Devine’s mother the day before, she had shared that she’d ‘never heard this story before’.
So it sounds like she has not been left as mentally scarred by the incident as her son – although DeVine did not divulge as to whether his toe was ever reattached to his foot or not.
Elsewhere in the interview, he also shared that he had been told last year that he was ‘dying’ after going through a ‘nightmare’ with his health over the past few years.
The star – who has 13-month-old son Beau with wife Chloe Bridges – left doctors fearing the worst when he began experiencing constant pain and ‘having spasms all over’, but he was ultimately told he was still experiencing the impact from being hit by the cement truck 30 years ago.
His medical team had initially thought he had stiff person syndrome (SPS) and told him it wouldn’t leave him with much time left to live, despite death from the condition – which Celine Dion has – being rare.
He said: ‘[I was told] the average life expectancy is six years for someone who has it, and they told me that I had that literally a month before my son Beau was born.’
After visiting ‘the guy who coined the phrase stiff-person syndrome’, DeVine was then told his struggles were more likely to stem from his childhood accident than a new condition, though the spasms were still deemed ‘unexplainable’.
He also confirmed that he has seen his health improve recently and a stem cell treatment left him feeling ‘the best’ he has been ‘for the past three years’.
DeVine also shared his theory that he believes his getting physically fit with CrossFit and cycling during the Covid-19 pandemic may have triggered the pain in his body.
‘I think I just got so tight and so tightly wound, and my body has all these things that are a little wonky and a little wrong with it, that I just sort of snapped. I think I’m still dealing with it, but it’s been three years now.’
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