Josh Duhamel almost did not make it to the aisle on his wedding day!
The 49-year-old actor wed Audra Mari earlier this month in Dakota, and he’s revealed that his rehearsal dinner antics almost became a real problem on his and Audra’s big day.
Speaking with ET’s Cassi DiLaura, he shared that he threw his back out hours before the ceremony:
“That was a close call. I woke up the morning of the wedding and I could not get out of bed. An hour before the wedding, I went straight from the emergency room to the church to get my suit put on.”
He said he sustained the injury “because I’m an idiot!” He added that he was celebrating on a party bus that drove them around after dinner. At one point, he attempted to lift himself up by two poles on the bus “like some kind of gymnast” — and that was a colossal mistake.
Josh also spoke about incident in an appearance on The Late Late Show with James Corden on Tuesday, saying:
“So I think I’m going to hang from the rafters inside this party bus and start crowd surfing atop it, and I throw my back out.
I thought I was fine, I wake up the next morning and I literally can’t get up out of bed.”
He said that it was “touch and go” right up to the moment he walked down the aisle. He had to rush to the emergency room before the wedding for a steroid shot:
“The one day you have to be able to walk is down that aisle. It was touch and go right up until an hour before the wedding.
I went to the emergency room, got shot up, and I was fine the whole night and then I woke up the next morning and I couldn’t get out of bed.”
