Joe Pasquale has described the horror scene left for him after he stabbed himself in a freak accident earlier this month.
Recently while on stage at the Embassy Theater in Skegness, 62-year-old Joe accidentally fell and stabbed himself on the razor-sharp bone of a moose’s antlers.
The comedian was rushed to hospital in Skegness at 11pm, but it was far too busy for him to get proper medical attention.
Appearing in Loose Women on Tuesday, Joe described the accident, revealing: ‘I just saw these moose antlers coming at me and I thought I was going to die. The moose was obviously dead anyway, it was just his head.’
The star had just finished the second night of his new tour when he went back to the dressing room and the incident happened.
“I’m done with a show, I’ve got all this stuff on the floor, it’s like the early Learning Center after the five-year-old has been in it.” the show and I tripped over something.”
Freak accident: Joe Pasquale, 62, appeared on Loose Women on Tuesday as he described his near-death experience after stabbing himself onstage in Skegness with a moose’s antlers
Sharing the gory details: The 62-year-old appeared on Loose Women on Tuesday to give the details of his accident (pictured LR Ruth Langsford, Olivia Attwood, Kéllé Bryan and Brenda Edwards)
He has said ‘I have a really big hole in the back of my leg but if I had gone straight down on my stomach I would be dead’
Getting caught up in the action ‘I thought “what would Tom Cruise do?” in the air I spun and I landed right in the middle. Except from my left leg, it punched my leg. It was like Bambi on acid, it was horrible.’
Joe further revealed that because he was in Skegness he was unable to get medical attention that night and had to wait until he was in Bridlington the next day until he could get stitches.
“The medic came down and said ‘Oh my God’ and that’s when I knew I was in trouble. He sent me to hospital but it was Skegness at 11pm on a Saturday night. So I went to Bridlington the next day and got stitches.’
He went on to joke, “I’ve gotten more publicity out of this than anything I’ve done in the last fifty years.
“It’s like jumping out of a plane to do stand-up comedy.”
The former I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here winner first told fans of Kate Thornton’s about the incident White Wine Question Time podcast where he confessed: “I almost died over the weekend. I almost committed suicide, I almost died. I really did. So close!’
Joe explained, “On stage I’ve got a really big pair of moose antlers and they’re huge things — they’ve got such huge teeth attached to them.”
“And the joke is I have to put them on my head and I’m going, ‘I put too much mousse on my hair.'” But at the end of the act, the curtains went down and all my props were all over the place. stage and of course they turn off the lights.’
He said, “I just saw these moose antlers coming at me and I thought I was going to die”
Like Tom Cruise, ‘I thought “what would Tom Cruise do?” in the air I spun and I landed right in the middle. Except from my left leg, it punched my leg. It was like Bambi on acid’
Joking: “I’ve gotten more publicity with this than anything I’ve done in the last 50 years,” he teased
Hilarious: The comedian made the women hysterical when he described the accident
“And I start putting all my props away and I literally trip over my moose head. It went in slow motion. My moose head is on the ground sticking up and I start going down – I fall on the moose head.
“I would impale myself on eight moose points in the stomach. Seriously, I died.’
Joe went on to explain how if he had been stabbed in the stomach it could have been fatal, but thanks to his “agility” he managed to avoid life-threatening damage.
However, he ended up needing seven stitches in his leg after the moose’s teeth severed the back of his leg.
The comedian continued: ‘I’m 62, but I’m pretty nimble for a guy my age. So I had one leg on the floor, the other hanging there on the right side, and I managed to push myself over. My torso went over the moose’s head.
“And when I landed on the moose’s head, on its teeth, I only hit the back of the leg. It really hurt, but I thought “that’s okay”.
“Anyway, I went to my tour manager who does the sound. I went, “Lee, I think I hurt my leg, would you like to take a look at it?” He went, “Yeah, what did you do?”
“I said, ‘I just fell over and landed on my moose head’.” He laughed. I pulled down my pants to show him and he almost turned white, he almost passed out. He said, “Oh my God, you need a medic.”
Joe admitted that he must have been in shock before the medic insisted he go straight to the emergency room because the cut was so severe.
Out in the sticks: Joe further revealed that because he was in Skegness he couldn’t get medical attention that night and had to wait until he was in Bridlington the next day until who could get stitches
Near death: Joe first described the incident to fans on Kate Thornton’s White Wine Question Time podcast, where he confessed, “I almost died over the weekend. I almost committed suicide, I almost died. I really did. So close!’
Ouch! The curtain had just fallen on the second night of his new tour when the terrifying accident occurred, leaving him with permanent scars.
Yikes: The medic insisted that Joe go to the ER after seeing the severity of the cut
The comedian recalled, “I pulled my pants back down and he said ‘Oh my God you need to go to the hospital.’ I can not do that. You have to have it sewn. It’s a very big hole in your leg.” I said, “how big?” He said, “too big for me”
This is in Skegness at 11pm. I said “There’s no way I’m going to Skegness at 11am, I’ll be there for 48 hours, it’s going to be full of every drunk person in the world”. He said, “Well, you have to go.”
‘In the morning I was in Bridlington so I went to an ER in Bridlington. I go there at nine in the morning. They sewed me up. I had to have seven stitches.
“I have a really big hole in the back of my leg, but if I went straight down on my stomach I’d be dead.”