Injured Adam Sandler appears on TV after ‘bad accident’

“There’s nothing cool about this,” said Adam Sandler as he appeared on live television with a noticeable shiner on his left eye.

Comedian Adam Sandler has appeared on live US television with a noticeable black eye.

“This is something I have to discuss, right?” the Hustle star, 55, said on Good Morning America while pointing to his left eye.

Sandler said he got the mark on his face because he kicked up his feet to untuck his bedsheets in the middle of the night in order to get his phone, which caused the device to go “flying” and hit him in the head, Page Six reports.

“I refused to acknowledge it,” he added. “I felt blood and said, ‘Ah, there’s something going on, but I got to sleep.’ Kept sleeping, woke up …”

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Adam Sandler showed up to GMA looking a bit worse for wear.

‘There’s nothing cool about this thing,’ Sandler said.

GMA co-anchor George Stephanopoulos then chimed in.

“That is the most elaborate black eye story I’ve ever heard,” he said.

“There’s nothing cool about this thing,” Sandler replied as the other GMA co-hosts laughed.

“It looks so cool. When I’m on the streets of New York, like, I see people going, ‘Oh, OK. He likes to fight, that guy.’ I’m like, ‘Ah, it was a bad accident.’”

This is not the first time Sandler has appeared on television with a black eye. In fact, it’s happened twice before.

Sandler on June 1 before his latest mishap. Picture: Getty

In 2014, he appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon alongside Drew Barrymore and joked it was his 50 First Dates co-star’s fault that he had a shiner.

Sandler said Barrymore, who was pregnant at the time, was not feeling “great” backstage and so he said he would “take a look”.

“She depanted [sic], and I looked up there, and this hand comes out and goes, ‘Boom!’” the comedian said, joking it was Barrymore’s unborn baby that hit him.

“That’s sick!” Barrymore star responded as the audience laughed.

Then, in 2015, Sandler was a guest on Jimmy Kimmel’s special NBA Finals Game Night show and once again had a bruise on his eye.

That time, the star said he got it from a pick-up game of basketball he ventured into when he was supposed to be getting his tyre changed.

“Some guy didn’t call a pick and smashed my head, my head blows and then I couldn’t lie about it,” he said. “I came home with a black eye and had to tell the truth – then paid a guy to change the tyre.”

This story originally appeared on Page Six and is republished here with permission

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