Channing Tatum is lucky he still has his manhood!
During a SiriusXM interview with Howard Stern this week, the 35-year-old hunky actor recalled an on-set accident that happened to his “penis” and “balls” years ago when he was filming the period flick The Eagle in the freezing hills of Scotland. The injury happened when a crewmember handed him a boiling bottle of water to poor down his pants.
“I started hyperventilating and screaming and jumping back into the river, because it was a hypothermic river and we had wet suits on, which was the worst part about it,” the Magic Mike XXL star explained. “So this poor guy, I gotta be honest…He had been, for 13 hours, running up a hill to boil to huge bottle of water, fill it half-full with like actual kettle water, run back down the hill and then like put the river water and then come over to me just to keep me warm all day.”
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When filming wrapped, Tatum was handed a bottle of just boiling water that hadn’t been tempered. “Like when you burn your finger and it just keeps burning. It kept burning for like the next probably 20 to 30 minutes. I was having a complete panic attack,” he continued.
Tatum was rushed into and ambulance where a medic told him, “‘I know this is no consolation now mate but it’s a good thing it hurts otherwise you’ve got nerve damage.’”
“I didn’t have skin on my penis,” Tatum said. “It oddly didn’t scar. It’s a resilient place down there. It healed pretty quick.”
Tatum said he had his penis wrapped in bandages for days and even had to unwrap them to urinate at a local pub. “I’m peeing and my shriveled burnt penis…I was like, ‘Why god?! Why did you do this to me?’” Tatum laughed.
Tatum said a week later his wife Jenna Dewan-Tatum came to visit and they were luckily able to have sex. “It was a little rough but we got it down,” he said.
