Morgan Freeman still hasn’t regained use of his left hand after a August 2008 car crash in Mississippi left the Oscar-winner with nerve damage. Although he had surgery to reconnect nerves in his left arm and hand soon after the accident, Freeman says he hasn’t been able to move the end of the forelimb in more than a year.
“I suffered nerve damage and it hasn’t gotten better. I can’t move it,” the star told PEOPLE at Wednesday’s Los Angeles premiere of The Eastwood Factor. “If you don’t move your hand, it will swell up. Do you know you move your hand about a million times a day?”
The 72-year-old Freeman is up for another Academy Award at next month’s Oscars for his portrayal as Nelson Mandela in Clint Eastwood’s Invictus.
