Good Will Hunting star Minnie Driver has shared a scary ordeal in her latest social media post as she said she was involved in a “really bad car accident with a friend” while in France.
Taking to Instagram, Driver, who more recently appeared in The Witcher: Blood Origin and Emily in Paris, shared a video in which she addressed her followers while lying in bed and wearing a neck brace.
“I got into a really bad car accident a few days ago with my friend Ben and we somehow walked out of it,” the Oscar-nominated star says in the video. “Well, we didn’t walk out of it. We crawled out of it. But we did get out of it alive.”
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“To be very clear, it was not our fault,” Driver continued.
“We were driving on a country road in the middle of France and a car didn’t stop at an intersection and was going at speed, and we just T-boned it. I’m fine, I’ve got a sprained neck and I’m really in shock and sort of cry all the time, but I’m going to heal.”
The star went on to praise the car that they were driving, a Kia EV2, saying its “360-degree airbags” are “the reason that I’m not dead”.
“While this is categorically not a car ad – can you imagine if that’s what I was doing – I want to celebrate that car,” she said.
“You know, I’m Minnie Driver, pun intended. I need to celebrate the car that saved us, because we’ve got families and people who love us, and I am so grateful to be alive.”
“So, Kia, you are a baller car company,” Driver added. “You’re amazing, and thanks very much from me and my mate Ben.”
The video ended with a photo of the totalled car and one of Driver and her friend walking out of the hospital together.
In the caption, Driver thanked a van driver who stopped to help her and Ben before the ambulances arrived, while noting that another car slowed down to look at the scene, but didn’t stop.
“I guess this is the Dao of the world, the light and the dark,” she wrote.
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