‘I nearly died!’ Joe Pasquale rushed to hospital after accidentally impaling himself

Joe Pasquale said he narrowly avoided “certain death" after accidentally stabbing himself last week.

The 62-year-old comedian was rushed to the hospital after the freak accident.

He told White Wine Question Time podcast that he fell and stabbed himself on the sharp bone of a moose’s antlers.

The incident happened after he wrapped on the second night of his new tour. “I nearly died at the weekend. I nearly killed myself, I nearly died. I really did. That’s close!” he said.

“In the act I have a great big pair of moose antlers and they’re huge things - they’ve got like these huge prongs sticking on,” The former I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! winner explained.

Pasquale said he was initially in denial about the severity of his injury (Getty Images)

“And the gag is I have to put them on my head and I go: ‘I put too much mousse on my hair.’ But at the end of the act the curtains came down and all my props were strewn all over the stage and they bring the lights down obviously.

“And I’m starting to put all my props away and I literally trip over my moose head. It was in slow motion. My moose head’s on the floor all sticking up and I’m starting to go down. I’m falling on to the moose head.

“I was going to impale myself on eight moose points right in my belly. Seriously, I was going to die.” Pasquale, who ended up getting seven stitches in the back of his leg, continued: “I am 62, but I am quite nimble for a bloke of my age.

“So I had one leg on the ground, the other one’s hanging out there to the right hand side, and I managed to push myself over. My torso went over the top of the moose head.

“It was like Tom Cruise in the new Mission Impossible film. I actually twisted round on to my back as well, all in a split second. It was all in a split second.

“And as I came down on the moose’s head on its prongs. It only got me in the back of the leg. It really hurt, but I thought ‘that’s ok’.”

He admitted that he must have been in shock because the gash was actually severe and his manager, who saw the injury, told him: “‘Oh my God, you need to go to hospital... You’ll have to get it sewn up. It’s a great big hole in your leg.’”

Pasquale was in Bridlington so  went to an A&E there. “I go there nine o’clock in the morning. They sewed me up. I had to have seven stitches.

“I’ve got a great big hole in the back of my leg, but if I’d gone straight down on my belly I’d be dead.”