Ariel Winter was hospitalized this week after a serious cooking accident.
The Modern Family actress revealed she’d been preparing a meal when she accidentally sliced off the top of her thumb. Despite the painful incident, the star recalled the situation with a sense of humor while speaking to Access Hollywood. As the story goes, Winter and her boyfriend Luke Benward had been conversing and cooking Greek food at home when she became distracted while slicing vegetables with some newly-purchased kitchen knives.
"I sliced the top of my thumb off on a peeled tomato," the 22-year-old admitted. "We were talking, and I sliced right through and we were both like, Oh my God!' I was so shocked."
The blood splatter was out of control, Winter remembers, because she’d hit an artery.
As if that wasn’t gory enough, would you believe she actually threw the nub away?! Wisely, Benward retrieved the chopped portion of her thumb and rushed his girlfriend to the hospital. Hilariously enough, Winter didn’t even recognize the nub when a nurse presented it to her. "She actually just gave it to me in a plastic bag and didn't tell me it was the tip of my thumb, too. So I accidentally threw it away," she said. " And we had to go get it. It's funny now."
After undergoing a tetanus shot, Winter says she’s “fine” now. "I sliced the top of my thumb off and it's sad," she added. "I will have a mildly sad looking thumb and it's OK."
Watch Winter retell the painful story above.
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