Jenifer Lewis opens up about moment she 'couldn't remember how to walk' after horrific 10-ft fall in 2022

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Actress Jenifer Lewis made an appearance on the latest episode of ‘The Tamron Hall Show', where she recalled her horrific accident in 2022.

The star told the host on Friday, April 5, about the time she fell from her balcony while vacationing in Africa.

Jenifer Lewis shares horrific experience after suffering 10-ft fall 

The ‘Sister Act’ star shared, "In Nairobi when they asked me to walk, you know the parallel bars? I couldn't remember how to walk," Lewis began.

"I couldn't remember how to put one foot. I didn't even... I couldn't remember what to do! He said, 'Mum, mum, you must walk here now. Come. Walk here.' I was like, 'How do you do that?'"

It was a difficult recovery path for the actress, but she held on to herself with determination.

“I sat down in the wheelchair and I sobbed and I heard myself say, 'You'll get up. You'll get up and you'll walk, or I'll kill you myself," she said to Tamron Hall.

"'Now get up. Get up. You get up and you walk. Come on baby.' And I walked," she revealed.

Determined actress made a steady recovery after accident

Lewis was in the Serengeti, and after checking into a hotel, she was walking in the pitch black of the night by her room’s private pool, when she fell 10 feet down.

The dry ravine she landed in was full of boulders and sharp rocks, and Lewis got her right hip severely injured from the impact.

“I didn't know you could be in that much pain and be alive. I went from that high kick standing on my star at the Hollywood Walk of Fame, five months later, I was on the ground of the Serengeti and that same leg couldn’t move," reflected the star.

Jenifer was finally airlifted to the Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi. "As I laid in that helicopter, I was in and out of consciousness and all I could hear was my soul screaming, ‘Whatever this is Jenny, you'll come back. If you're breathing, you'll come back,” she told People earlier.

After the diagnosis, it was found that she had fractured her acetabulum, the socket of the hip bone that holds the femur in place.

This necessitated a nine-hour surgery on the actress, as the medical team tried to replace her acetabulum with titanium.