Modern Family star, Ariel Winter, has suffered a rather unfortunate cooking accident while in lockdown. The actress sliced off the top of her thumb while preparing a Greek dish using new knives.
Winter recalled the painful, albeit funny, incident in a video interview with Access Hollywood, revealing that she chopped the tip of her thumb "off on a peeled tomato". She was then taken to hospital as her thumb was bleeding profusely.
"I apparently sliced an artery so I bled so much so we had to go to the hospital," the actress said, disclosing that her boyfriend, Luke Benward, had to give the tip of her thumb to a nurse who sealed it inside a plastic bag to keep it safe. But Winter accidentally threw away the bag, mistaking it for trash, as she wasn't told what was inside;
"Funny, she [the nurse] actually just gave it to me in a plastic bag and didn't tell me it was the tip of my thumb so I accidentally threw it away.
We threw it away in triage because I was bleeding on it and then we had to go back and be like: 'I think it's in that little plastic bag in the trash"
Watch the entire interview below:Winter said that the initial shock of the incident had her hyperventilating at first, but thankfully, her boyfriend, as well as the hospital staff, were very attentive.
She told the interviewer that she's now feeling much better, but that she had to have a tetanus shot to prevent the wound from getting infected. "I'm fine. It definitely hurt and it wasn't fun but they took great care of me," she concluded.
Watch Ariel Winter's workout routine: We are urging all of our readers to adhere to the advice from their respective governments and medical bodies, and practice social distancing and self-isolation where required. Together, we will beat this.
