Adam Sandler now has a bit of a reputation for showing up to live interviews with a black eye. He repeated his streak on Monday when he appeared on "Good Morning America" with an obvious shiner on his left eye.
Sandler appeared on GMA to promote his upcoming Netflix movie, "Hustle" and immediately quipped, “This is something I have to discuss, right?” as he pointed to his black eye.
The 55-year-old actor shared that he kicked up his feet, attempting to untuck his bedsheets in the middle of the night, and in an effort to grab his phone, the phone went “flying” and hit him directly in his left eye.
He explained, “I refused to acknowledge it. I felt blood and said, ‘Ah, there’s something going on, but I got to sleep.’ Kept sleeping, woke up …”
“GMA” co-anchor George Stephanopoulos couldn't help but comment, “That is the most elaborate black-eye story I’ve ever heard.”
As everyone shares a laugh, Sandler jokes, “There’s nothing cool about this thing," adding, “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 would mark the third time in the past couple of decades that Sandler sported a shiner. In 2014, he joked while appearing on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” that his “50 First Dates” co-star, Drew Barrymore gave him the black eye.
Again in 2015, Sandler appeared as a guest on Jimmy Kimmel’s special NBA Finals “Game Night” show and again, showed up with a shiner which he said he got from playing a pickup game of basketball.