Tessa Thompson says she was in accident with a monster truck on New Year's Eve
Tessa Thompson had a particularly stressful New Year's Eve after being in a car accident.
The Marvel actress revealed the news in an interview with Jimmy Kimmel earlier this week. "I drove up a mountain to go to a cabin, and I thought, 'This will be totally safe because I won't see anybody,'" the actress said, of avoiding COVID-19 exposure. "But I got into a car accident, so I did have a socially distanced interaction."
Thompson, 37, said the other vehicle was as big as they come. "I got hit by a big monster truck on the highway," she said.
Tessa Thompson on Jimmy Kimmel NBC
When Kimmel questioned whether the truck was actually a real monster truck, the Westworld star clarified, "Let's put it this way. It is as 'monster' as a truck could be, driving with a regular commercial license."
She added, "I got hit, but I'm safe, obviously, and actually, the driver was very lovely in the end.
"I feel like I'm so used to car accidents because I was born and raised in Los Angeles, so it feels like accidents are my birthright," she joked. "I've had many of them. But this was a pleasant one."
Tessa Thompson at the 2020 Vanity Fair Oscar Party. Getty
She's able to see the bright side of things, being grateful that it wasn't a much worse accident. "After this year I think there's such gratitude at being alive that it was sort of the sweetest, loveliest accident of all the ones I've had," she said.
