Why Morgan Freeman wore a glove on his left hand at the Oscars

Morgan Freeman wore a black glove on his left hand as he presented the Oscars - leaving viewers scratching their heads.

Morgan Freeman wore a black glove on his left hand as he presented the Oscars (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP)

Morgan Freeman wore a black glove on his left hand as he presented the Oscars - leaving viewers scratching their heads.

While people were concerned, wearing a glove isn’t out of the ordinary for Freeman, and there’s a reason behind it, the New York Post reports.

Freeman, 85, was in a serious car accident in 2008 when his car flipped multiple times on a Mississippi highway.

Morgan Freeman wore a black glove on his left hand as he presented the Oscars (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP)

The accident was nearly fatal and left his hand paralysed.

“They had to use the jaws of life [hydraulic cutters] to extract him from the vehicle,” a report said in The Guardian at the time.

“He was lucid, conscious. He was talking, joking with some of the rescue workers at one point.”

Freeman suffered severe nerve damage and wears a compression glove to keep the blood flowing.

“I suffered nerve damage and it hasn’t gotten better. I can’t move it,” he told People in 2010.

He wore the elbow-length glove as he escorted Margot Robbie, 32, onto the stage at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles to mark 100 years of Warner Bros.

This story was originally published by the New York Post and was reproduced with permission