This past weekend, Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea shared a battered-looking selfie on Instagram, with visible scratches on his face and a bandage on his head, leaving fans to wonder what happened.
During an appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Monday (March 23rd), Flea — who was still sporting a bandaged forehead — opened up about his recent injury.
When asked to explain what happened, Flea joked that he was attacked by some “thugs” who were mugging old ladies using “bats, knives, [and] chains.”
“You know, I’m very trained in martial arts my whole life. [I studied] Wang Chung,” he said (as transcribed by Alternative Nation). “I charged them. A flurry of flying kicks, round kicks. I jumped up into a tree, did a backflip off the last guy. And they’re all lying there on the ground — Whimpering, crying, moaning, begging for mercy. At that moment, I realized that I had suffered a little nick, but justice had been done.”
Flea then confessed that he “made that story up,” revealing the injury was actually caused by a “bizarre peeing accident.”
“I was doing a radio show for Apple Music the other day. I was playing a Lee Morgan song, a great song called ‘Stopstart’ with Billy Higgins on drums,” he recalled to Fallon. “Three minutes left in the song and I said ‘I got to go pee.’ So, I have three minutes before I introduce the next tune.
“I jump up, I run down the hallway, I pee, I’m coming back. I’m wearing my reading glasses. I yell something to someone, running full sprint down the hallway, and bam! Smack into a glass door, flat on my back, blood spurting out of my head. I’m laying there, and I’m going, ‘Oh man, I’ve got to do the Fallon Show in a few days… I’ll tell him I got in a fight.’”
Flea continued: “But, strangely enough, this is not my first peeing accident. I want you to know that I peed the bed until I was 11 or 12 years old. Caused me no shortage of embarrassment… I just want to let you know, all of you out there in TV land, all you bedwetters, I am one of you. You are not alone… I know the embarrassment, I know the pain, I know the lack of self-esteem. And to bedwetters, I want you to know, you can be a bedwetter and you can make it all the way to the Jimmy Fallon motherf*cking show!”
