Samuel L. Jackson reveals shocking near-death experience in New York

Samuel L.Jackson came close to death over 30 years ago.While appearing on Tuesday’s episode of Paloma Faith’s “Mad Sad Bad” podcast, the 76-year-old actor recalled the time he “got dragged by a subway train in New York” and nearly died.“I was in the middle door of the last car, and it was a long-ass train station,” Jackson explained.

“And when the door closed on my foot, [the] train took off.So I’m sitting there thinking, I’m like, ‘Oh, f‑‑‑, I’m going to die.'”“I could see the tunnel coming,” Jackson continued, “and I couldn’t figure out anything that I could grab or hold on to and get close to the train so I wouldn’t get killed in the tunnel.”But the train “just slowed down really, really slow,” the “Pulp Fiction” star said, adding, “until all of a sudden the train stopped.” Jackson previously told Vanity Fair that the incident happened in December 1988.

He explained that he stopped to help a woman who dropped something when the subway doors closed on his ankle, causing him to be dragged on the platform as the train accelerated.Jackson tore his ACL and meniscus, which led to him spending 10 months on crutches and over a year in physical rehab.

He won $540,000 after suing the New York Transit Authority.On the podcast, Jackson said that he found out who saved his life while he was in court two years after the incident.“The guy who pulled the emergency cord was on crutches,” he shared.“Everybody else in there was trying to open the door, get my foot out the door, push and push and pull and try and take my shoe off.

And he was going to the emergency cord and he finally pulled it and stopped it.” The “Avengers” actor recalled that when he was being dragged by the subway “all I could think of was, it was going to be a really sad Christmas, because it was like a few days before Christmas.”“So I was going to miss my birthday and all that,” he said.“I was like, ‘Damn, it’s gonna be f...