Melissa McCarthy is sharing how she and her dad Michael McCarthy ended up sporting matching finger casts.
The Bridesmaids actress revealed on Thursday’s episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert that she accidentally fractured her finger while poking fun at her dad for fracturing his own finger.
“My dad — who is wonderful, very feisty, moves quickly — he fell and hurt himself a little bit but didn’t go to the doctor, which I’m like, ‘That’s what you want to do at 86,’” McCarthy told host Stephen Colbert. “And then all of a sudden, seven days later he’s like, ‘Does this seem okay to you?’ And I was like, ‘Your clearly broken finger?’”
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The 55-year-old explained that she was in the middle of discussing her father’s accident when she injured herself.
“I was talking to my cousin and I was lovingly giving my dad a hard time because I’m like, ‘He’s always gotta go 100 miles an hour! He’s gotta do this! He’s gotta do that!’” she recalled. “I’m doing it, I slammed my hand into the base of the table I was sitting at and fractured my finger.”
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McCarthy ended up having to tell her husband, fellow actor and comedian Ben Falcone, about her finger.
“I think I really hurt it, like I think I honestly hurt it…I think I broke it,” she said. “And then Ben just goes, ‘Yeah, I know, because 20 years ago I married Mike McCarthy…. In mocking him, you’re just acting like yourself.”
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Colbert then unveiled a photograph of McCarthy and her father sporting matching finger casts on their fractured middle fingers.
“He [Michael] had to go for hand surgery and this lovely doctor, I was like ‘I’m not trying to get free medical advice, but I think I have jacked up my finger,’” McCarthy said. “And then he took an X-ray and said, ‘Yeah, you fractured it. Good job.’”
“You piggybacked on your dad’s surgery?” a laughing Colbert asked, to which McCarthy responded, “I did… Those are good Midwestern roots! I’m like, ‘The doctor’s here anyway!’”
Thankfully, McCarthy appears to have made a full recovery, as she did not wear her finger cast on Thursday’s episode of The Late Show.
Listen to McCarthy discuss her and her father’s injuries in the clip above.