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Lonely Island's Jorma Taccone Recovering After 20-Foot Ladder Fall, Faces Months of Rehab

Doctors project a three- to six-month timeline to walk again following surgery for severe pelvic and sacral injuries.

Overview

  • He fell about 20 feet at his Connecticut farmhouse while hanging lights and finishing a barn mural for his daughter's fifth birthday.
  • He said he shattered the left side of his pelvis, detached his sacrum from his spine, fractured his L5, and had a damaged disc removed.
  • He described the ordeal from his hospital bed on The Lonely Island & Seth Meyers podcast two days after surgery.
  • Taccone expects acute inpatient rehabilitation and physical therapy, and he referenced complex front-and-back surgical work.
  • Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Seth Meyers voiced support on the show, saying they had been worried sick.