I Can’t Remember Anything About My Car Crash – Antonio

West Ham legend Michail Antonio has come out to share an emotional account of his car crash in 2024. He recently revealed that he does not really remember anything about the accident, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, he does not remember being in the hospital or going in for the operation because there were loads of emotions coming through that only his body remembers certain things his mind cannot recall.

Antonio added that listening to Beyonce’s “I Was Here” since the crash has been incredibly emotional.

His words, “What’s crazy about it, everybody in the world experienced that crash more than me. Even though I was in it, I didn’t live it because I don’t remember anything about it. I don’t remember the crash, I don’t remember being in the hospital, I don’t remember going in for the operation, I don’t remember coming out of the operation. There were loads of emotions coming through, my body remembers stuff even though my mind doesn’t. What I’ve learnt from the car crash is football’s important, but your health is more important.

There was a lot of stuff I kept pushing back, that I kept not doing because I was being lazy. I kept saying to everybody; ‘I want to get into TV, do my presenting, do my podcast’, and I never really pushed it. It’ll be done another time. But that time nearly didn’t happen because I almost died.

I was in Dubai with my kids, my daughter loves Beyonce, [and the song] I Was Here. Have you listened to those words? I’ve listened to it so many times but since the car crash, I listened to it and I was just sitting there, in a room with my kids but I’ve gone into a corner and I was crying.

Those words, when you’ve been through what I’ve been through, when you’ve nearly died. When I was listening to it, I’ve gone. Now I’m at that stage where I’m going to bring myself happiness. I’m going to do whatever needs to be done. As much as the crash was a curse, it was also a blessing. It’s brought so many things to light and made me more focused and driven to do what needs to be done.

I spoke to the gaffer and he was like: ‘I want you to do me a favour, we’ve signed no right-backs, I think I can make you one of the best right-backs in the world’. First game of the [2016-17] season against Chelsea. He’s (Slaven Bilic) gone to me: ‘Trust me, I’m going to be here for you [while you play ay right-back]’. I’ve done a mad flick. I don’t know what I was thinking at the time, I tried to dink it over [Eden] Hazard in my own box, lost the ball. He’s done a one-two and I’ve tripped him up for a pen. The gaffer’s dragged me, instantly. And I was like: ‘This is why I can’t play right-back’. I’m attack-minded, I think of these stupid things to do in my own box. No need.

From that moment, I’m not playing there anymore. I won’t play there. The gaffer pulled me up about it at the end of the game. I made a mistake. In the end I just went: ‘I’m not playing there no more, this is not my position, put me back on the wing or don’t play me’. ‘I don’t enjoy playing there, it’s ruining my football’. He was angry. He was like: ‘When I tell you to play somewhere you play there’. And I’ve done that, for nearly a year now, but that’s not my position. So put me back in my place. It was crazy, next week he played me right wing and I scored the very first goal at the London Stadium.”

WOW.