'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,' Tatum recalled.
- June 24, 2015
AceShowbiz -
Channing Tatum went candid about his genital injury in a recent interview with Howard Stern for SiriusXM. The "Magic Mike XXL" actor detailed the horrifying accident happening to his private part when he was filming 2011's movie "The Eagle" in freezing hills of Scotland.
Tatum said that the injury happened when a crew member handed him a bottle of water to pour down his pants but failed to communicate that the water was "boiling." Tatum recalled, "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."
"So this poor guy, I gotta be honest, he had been, for 13 hours, running up a hill to boil a 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," he went on telling the host.
"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 added.
Tatum said that when he was rushed into an ambulance, a medic told him that the pain he was suffering was "a good thing" because it meant that he didn't have any damaged nerves. "I didn't have skin on my penis," he added. "It oddly didn't scar. It's a resilient place down there. It healed pretty quick."
Tatum's manhood had to be wrapped in bandages for a few days and he had to unwrap them to urinate. "I'm peeing and my shriveled burnt penis...I was like, 'Why god?! Why did you do this to me?' " Tatum said, laughing.
