Adam Devine shows off scars from being hit by cement truck as a child

Adam Devine did a little show and tell recently with his scars from a traumatic childhood experience where he was hit by a cement truck.

The Pitch Perfect star, 41, opened up about being “kablamo’d” – Devine’s term – on Monday’s episode of the Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast. But before he reiterated the details of the shocking accident, Devine asked host Conan O’Brien and cohosts Sona Movsesian and Matt Gourley, “Are you squeamish?” When they affirmed they weren’t, he showed them the scarring that extends the length of his entire right shin.

“Holy s—,” Movsesian exclaimed, and O’Brien added, “Oh my God.”

“So, it looks like uncooked chicken, but it is my leg,” Devine joked.

“That’s skin grafts,” Devine said, explaining that he underwent “something like 26 or 28 surgeries” after the accident. “So the the skin was ripped off, and the other leg’s a little better, but it was half the leg. I broke everything from the knees down, they had to reconstruct my legs, and then my left femur, and then some ribs, and I punctured a lung and was bleeding out of my ears. But then they’re like, ‘No brain damage! I think?'”

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Devine has discussed the accident, the injury, and the aftermath on numerous previous occasions. He told Entertainment Weekly in 2016 that the accident occurred when he was 11 due to a simple miscommunication between friends.

“One buddy was across the street. He yelled ‘Come on!’ as in ‘I’m excited to go look at boobs!’ And I heard ‘Come on!’ as in, ‘The coast is clear,'” he recalled. Devine then walked right into the road – and 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.

Reflecting on telling his own story over the years, Devine humorously reasoned, “I’ve said 500 feet because that’s what my mom told me, and that’s what’s on my Wikipedia page. But then I did another podcast, and I think Theo Von was like, ‘500 feet? That’s so far.’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah I guess it is… My mom’s a liar.'”

In April, Devine shared how the enduring complications from the crash impact him to this day. Saying the last three years of his life have “been a nightmare,” Devine described experiencing “spasms all over” which cause “so much pain” and greatly reduce his mobility. His doctors even “told me I was dying, literally, within this last year they told me that.”

But he hasn’t let the injury hold him back, welcoming son Beau Devine with wife Chloe Bridges in 2024 and continuing to star as Kevin Gemstone in The Righteous Gemstones, which aired its final episode on May 4.

You can watch the rest of Devine’s interview on Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend above.