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Comedian, actor, Kevin Hart has opened up about his recovery, three months after his ghastly car accident.

On Wednesday’s episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, he spoke with host Ellen DeGeneres about how far he has gone since the accident, which required him to undergo emergency back surgery.


“I am about 65 to 75 percent back to my physical self. Workouts are not full, I’m not lifting heavy weights, but I’m back to weighted workouts, agility, mobility, core workouts. I’m a little determined jackass.

Hart said that he was left helpless immediately after the crash, and had to rely on his family.

“I couldn’t wipe my ass! You don’t realize that your back is connected to everything. So coming out of back surgery, everything changed. Because you’re kind of helpless. That’s when you get to see what really matters, who really matters. Life kind of hits you in a completely different way.

“In that [hospital] room was me, my wife, my kids, my brother and my closest friends. My kids didn’t want to go to school. They stayed with me, they slept with me day in, day out. My wife was on rotation with my brother, her mom came in, my mother-in-law was there. And you go, ‘Wow. This is love. This is what real love and life is.'

“The things that you think matter, you realize don’t. Because if you’re gonna have room, it’s not about your level of success, it’s not about how much money you have. It’s about those individuals and who you really mean the most to and who means the most to you.

“I like saying, ‘Okay, it’s time to rebuild. But we’re not rebuilding to get back to the old you, we’re rebuilding to be better and become a new you. It’s a thing with me and my mindset that I embrace and I think from the days in the hospital when I realized I couldn’t do for myself.

“The first goal was wiping my ass. True story. The first thing was me saying [to my wife], ‘Yo, I don’t like the fact, honey, that you gotta come in and you gotta get me together. My first goal is to get you out of this position.’ And I learned how to stretch and I started to get a little looser and looser. I started showering by myself, I started dressing by myself.

“The biggest triumph is when I put my socks on one day. When I put my socks on, it was the biggest thing in the world. Ran around the house, ‘I got my socks on! You ain’t have to do it, I did it myself!'”