Minnie Driver in neck brace post-crash: 'Reason I'm not dead is the car we were driving'

Minnie Driver’s Paris adventures went awry this week erstwhile she was progressive successful a car mishap that she’s describing arsenic a frightening adjacent call.

On Thursday, the histrion — who has posted a bid of “Paris Update” videos for her fans implicit the past 2 months portion filming the sixth play of “Emily successful Paris” — updated fans with a video posted to Instagram successful which she appeared successful a cervix brace and recounted a harrowing adjacent call. “Paris update is that I americium really backmost successful London,” the video began.

“I got into a truly atrocious car mishap a fewer days agone with my person Ben, and we someway walked retired of it,” she said. “Well, we didn’t locomotion retired of it. We crawled retired of it, but we did get retired of it alive.”

Driver said the mishap wasn’t their fault, and that they were cruising down a state roadworthy successful the mediate of France erstwhile different conveyance failed to halt astatine an intersection.

“We conscionable T-boned it,” she said. “I’m fine. I’ve got a sprained neck, and I’m truly successful daze and benignant of outcry each the time, but I’m going to heal.”

According to Deadline, accumulation connected “Emily successful Paris” volition proceed arsenic planned speech from 1 country involving Driver that had to beryllium rescheduled. She plans to instrumentality to her relation arsenic Princess Jane erstwhile she recovers.

“The crushed that I’m not dead, honestly, is the car that we were driving,” she continued successful her update, adding that 360-degree airbags successful the “tiny Kia” she was riding successful saved their lives. “The information that the full car didn’t conscionable concertina and crush america is down to the plan of that car, which is frankly astonishing.”

Driver assured her followers that the video wasn’t a car advertisement — “Can you ideate if that’s what I was doing?” — but the histrion appeared grateful and wanted to springiness owed credit, each with her consciousness of wit inactive intact.

“I’m a mini driver, pun intended. I request to observe the car that saved us, due to the fact that we’ve got families and radical who emotion us, and I americium truthful grateful to beryllium alive,” she said. “So, Kia, you are a baller car company.”