Grant Denyer has suffered a horrific injury and according to his wife Chezzi, he’s in “a lot of pain”.
Denyer, who has been absent this week from his 2Day FM breakfast show Grant, Ed & Ash, called in on Monday to reveal that he injured his back after using a mallet to hammer in some pegs in a paddock on his farm.
Since then, the Gold Logie winner’s wife has revealed that the star’s injury is far worse than they expected.
“He found out yesterday he’s got an annular fissure, which is a tear in his lower disc, so it’s incredibly painful and it basically makes it impossible for him to walk, sit, or do anything other than lie on his left side,” Chezzi told Grant’s co-hosts on air this morning. “He’s in a lot of pain and it’s really difficult to watch. It took me back to when he broke his back 10 years ago because the pain is so intense when he moves that you can’t help but get quite angry, and that’s not in his nature.”
“Also on top of that, he feels like he’s let the world down, he’s let you guys down because he wants to be at work and it’s a really busy period, so he’s just doing his best.”
“He was in such intense, acute pain when we got into hospital and they checked his vitals and said this guy needs to be given a massive dose of morphine, his blood pressure is through the roof,” Chezzi said. “I don’t think he was really thinking about it, but we’ve had some really good guidance and we’ve been juggling different types of medication because usually they put you on very strong morphine which is not Grant’s friend.”
“So we’ve had to take some really good advice and guidance and we’ve finally found something that is a very stable drug that will allow him just to rest and not have the big patches of pain,” she added.
In 2008, Grant broke his back in a monster truck accident, suffering horrific injuries which left him in a dark place. Last year, the star revealed that he became addicted to the heavy pain killers, and abused them as a way of coping with his deteriorating mental state.
“I mentally wasn’t well, I was on pain medication for long time, and I probably wasn’t aware of the effects of that. I just didn’t have an education to be able to deal with it. I think I was caught in that trap and a whole whirlwind of emotions that meant I was at my lowest,” he at the time.
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