Shia LaBeouf’s Permanent Damage

April 15, 2009 at 4:25am PST
Photos: splashnewsonline.com

Shia LaBeouf will never regain full use of his left hand after a car accident last July.

In a new interview, Shia reveals he’s expected to recoup “about 80-something percent” of mobility in that hand. “There’s a knuckle I’ll never be able to move again, but that’s probably the only permanent damage, other than the scarring.”

He’s incredibly lucky. Shia, 22, was driving drunk, though he was eventually found not at fault, at the time of the early morning crash during which he flipped his truck and left him needing extensive surgery.

When he got out of surgery, Shia got a reminder of what’s really important. “Harrison [Ford] called me on the phone and said, ‘Hey, are you okay?’ I said, 'Yeah, I’m good.’ He said, ‘Well, then you need to get back to work.’ So I went back to work. The show doesn’t stop for anybody.”

Crack that whip, Indy!

—Sasha Perl-Raver

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