Stephen Fry spoke exclusively to GMB today about his recovery from a serious fall - admitting he felt lucky to be walking. Joining co-hosts Susanna Reid and Ed Balls, the national treasure, 66, said: “I'm feeling whole and healed thanks to good physiotherapy “It was pretty nasty. I broke my leg in two places, my pelvis in four places and a bunch of ribs, so it was really quite serious.”Painkillers accelerated the recovery.Stephen, who was also promoting the upcoming new ITV game show Jeopardy!, explained: “They [painkillers] mean the physio can get you on your feet earlier.
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00:00 September and we are glad to say you are here in person probably a little bit
00:07 wary of any of the steps around how are you feeling I'm feeling whole and healed
00:11 thanks to good physiotherapy yeah it was pretty nasty I broke my leg in two
00:16 places my pelvis in four places a bunch of ribs so it was really quite serious
00:21 and actually painkillers helped I know that's uncivili I mean obviously they
00:28 reduce the pain but they mean the physio can get you on your feet earlier and
00:32 even though it was the the dreaded oxycontin which has cut a swathe through
00:36 America opioid crisis obviously it was being dealt to me very properly and
00:41 weaned off it so I didn't get addicted but because of the painkillers I was
00:45 able to move earlier than I were otherwise would have been and since then
00:49 just lots of hydrotherapy and physio just remind viewers what happened you
00:53 were hosting I was at the yeah AI technology and something as physical and
01:00 down-to-earth and practical as a massive drop from the stage yes it's a reminder
01:04 that the the real physical world with its atoms and molecules is always going
01:08 to defeat you further than the electronic world of AI that we got so
01:12 obsessed with yes I was at the o2 arena the Millennium Dome as was and yeah I
01:18 was giving this lecture and when I finished it took my bow walked offstage
01:23 not knowing that the part of the stage I was walking off and a six-foot drop onto
01:27 concrete oh I know it was it was grim now
01:32 you
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