This Is Us star Justin Hartley opens up about his 'disgusting' quarantine injury
Justin Hartley appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show to discuss the injury that he received while working out in his home gym over quarantine.
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The 43-yearold This Is Us star decided to build a home gym over the lockdown period as he was ambitiously hoping to get fit, learn a new language as well as a new hobby, but like many of us... didn't get around to it.
He then moved on to the injury that he received while "making up" his own exercise.
Justin Hartley explains what he had planned to do over quarantine. 9Now
"I was working out, and I ended up doing something really kind of ridiculous," Hartley said, "and I tore my bicep off my arm. It was pretty disgusting."
At the mention of the gory injury, DeGeneres cringed and asked in amazement, "The muscle came away from the bone?"
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"The tendon that holds is to the bone apparently, I guess, came off. It sounded like if someone just ripped your shirt," Hartley responded.
"Oh, you heard it!" DeGeneres said, becoming even more visibly uncomfortable and squirming.
"Oh, it was bad," Hartley said.
Justin Hartley explained what happened during his quarantine injury. 9Now
Hartley added that it occurred while he was making up his own exercise in his in-home gym that he assembled during the COVID-19 pandemic; a movement that was similar to a bicep curl.
He then went into further detail about the horrific incident.
"It felt like, I think I was in shock mostly, but it felt like, the way I would describe it is, I stopped 'cause I heard it. It was an awful sound, and then I felt a little grain of sand in my right here," he said, aware of how uncomfortable he was making DeGeneres, who was still writhing.
Ellen DeGeneres was uncomfortable hearing about her guest's injury. 9Now
"And then it turned into, like, a pea and then a marble and then a golf ball and then a tennis ball and then a softball and then a watermelon. It kept feeling like a human head was in there."
Seemingly unwilling to continue the line of questioning, DeGeneres responded, "Mhmm."
"They literally were able to grab the tendon and pull it out of my arm, and they showed it to me. It's pretty disgusting," he added.
"You make us cry on your show, then you come be a guest on my show and you make people sick," DeGeneres said with an eye roll towards her audience.
Watch the full exchange in the video above.
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