Comedian Jorma Taccone has opened up about his near-fatal fall from a 20-foot ladder earlier this summer.
The “Saturday Night Live” alum, 48, detailed the shocking incident during the latest episode of “The Lonely Island & Seth Meyers Podcast” released Tuesday, Sept. 2.
Taccone, who is one-third of Andy Samberg’s The Lonely Island comedy trio, revealed that he shattered his pelvis and suffered a detached sacrum after the scary drop.
“One of the projects I wanted to do this summer was I wanted to build… there’s a barn, and the back half of the barn has this big white wall,” Taccone began, detailing the lead-up to the tumble. “I was like, this is great, we can do a big mural.”
“I was painting this barn, and as a final touch, I was like, I should hang these lights that will go around the eve of the barn to highlight the barn,” the “Hot Rod” actor, whose daughter was turning 5, continued. “I was doing that on the day.”
But after borrowing a “very rickety” ladder with “not good” legs from a neighbor and climbing 20 feet up, Taccone nearly froze as it began to “give way” before “going down under him.”
“In this moment, my life flashes before my eyes, I’m like, Oh no, I’ve got to get off this ladder,” the comedy writer, who appeared to be joining the podcast episode from a hospital bed, recalled. “I had enough time as I’m falling to be like, I’m going to die.”
“I drop, I look over, I see the yard, I’m like, This is going to hurt a lot,” he continued. “I fall straight on my butt, taking all of the impact on my butt. Then I do a lot of screaming and cursing.”
“Keep in mind, it’s my daughter’s fifth birthday party, so it wasn’t the coolest way to start the day,” Taccone added. “I’m like, Call an ambulance!”
After being rushed to the hospital, the “I’m on a Boat” singer learned that he “shattered my pelvis on my left-hand side pretty badly” and that his “sacrum has detached from my spine.”
The pelvis is the bony structure inside your hips, buttocks and pubic region, per the Cleveland Clinic. The sacrum is the triangular-shaped bone located at the base of the spine.
“A disc is bad now, so they have to chuck that out,” Taccone said. “It takes a while to schedule the surgery because they wanted to do the front part and the back part as well.”
As for the aftermath of the devastating fall, the “Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping” director confirmed that he would need up to half a year to fully recover and walk again.
“On the plus side, all the doctors have been like, ‘You’ll be walking within three to six months and you’ll be back to like all of the stuff that you normally do,’” he told Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Seth Meyers. “So we shall see.”
“I’m just gonna have to fight through the pain,” Taccone concluded. “It’s definitely no joke.”
The Post has reached out to Taccone’s reps for comment.