The “Black-ish” actress discussed her long journey to recovery in an emotional interview with Tamron Hall.
“He said, ‘Ma’am, ma’am, you must walk here now.
Come walk here.’
Jenifer Lewis on ‘The Tamron Hall Show’.DISNEY ENTERTAINMENT TELEVISION/Jeff Neira
I was like, ‘How do I do that?'”
She continued: “I sat down in the wheelchair and I sobbed.
I heard myself say, ‘You will get up.
You will get up, you will, or I will kill you myself.
You get up and you walk.
Come on, baby.’
“When the sun sets in the Serengeti, there are no streetlights.
It is pitch-black,” Lewis told Roberts.
“I was escorted to the lodge, my room, but I wasn’t given a tour.
I should’ve been given tour.
A lightning bolt went through my mind’s eye right here.
In pitch-black, I didn’t know I was falling.
Then, I called for my friend, Lori.
It was hard to even take a big breath to scream.”
When her friend left the scene to get help, Lewis heard a lion roar nearby.
“The king at the queen.
Pieces of Jenifer Lewis’ body being flown back to the States.”
Elsewhere in her interview with Hall, Lewis commended her surgeon and his staff in Nairobi.
“Ten hours he worked on me,” an overcome Lewis said.
“Three blood transfusions.
And his wife came into surgery, into ICU, and prayed for me.”
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