In sickness and in health.
Josh Duhamel had to go to the emergency room for a second time after his wedding to Audra Mari due to a gruesome back injury.
“The next morning, after the wedding, [I] couldn’t get out of bed again,” the “Safe Haven” star, 49, revealed on “The Kelly Clarkson Show” on Friday, adding that his wife nervously said, “‘Oh my God. Everything is fine here. This is, like, the first day of my marriage, and I’m wheeling my husband around in a wheelchair.’”
Duhamel — who has a 21-year age gap with the 28-year-old pageant queen — then told host Kelly Clarkson, “I’m already way older than she is. It wasn’t a great start, but I was like, ‘Babe, for better or worse.’”
Just hours before walking down the aisle in September, the “Lost Husband” star had to be taken to the hospital for the first time after he “couldn’t get out of bed.”
Mari previously told Vogue Australia that her groom threw his back out after “pulling some wild dance moves” on a party bus the night before their big day.
Duhamel shared with Clarkson, 40, on Friday just which dance move caused him to get hurt.
“They have those handles that you hold on in the party bus — I tried to do this thing like a gymnast, like, straighten myself out,” the “Transformers” star said, while extending out his leg.
“So, I felt fine. I got through that night, and I wake up the next morning, two hours before the wedding, and I couldn’t get out of bed. I literally couldn’t stand up.”
Duhamel said he was able to get through the ceremony because he was drugged up on Toradol, an anti-inflammatory medication that reduces the hormones that cause pain in the body.
Despite all of the drama that went down, Mari looks back on her big day fondly — especially because the couple tied the knot in North Dakota, which the home state for both of them.
“I guess the romantic in me always feels like we’re just two small-town kids from North Dakota who found each other in Los Angeles,” the model told Vogue Australia. “But we will always always be home, no matter where we are in the world.”
Although this was Mari’s first wedding, Duhamel has been married before, to singer Fergie from 2017 to 2019. They share a 9-year-old son named Axl.
