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Dean Gaffney, an East Ender, sustained injuries after Chelsea’s £70 million star Wesley Fofana ran him over on a night out.
The player’s Lamborghini threw father-of-two Gaffney “catapulted” him into the air, breaking his collarbone.
While £230,000-a-week Fofana was breathalysed on the spot on the King’s Road in Chelsea, West London, he received medical attention in the hospital before being permitted to return home.
The 23-year-old French international center back passed the exam and was let to continue his journey since he was not found to be at fault for the collision.
Gaffney, 45, was allegedly “unaware” of the I’m A Celeb star’s identity, but he only discovered later that Fofana was the driver.
According to a source, Dean stated after the unfortunate incident that he felt fortunate to be alive and was grateful for everything in his life.
“He was attempting to get into a black taxi after leaving a nightclub when the Lamborghini struck him in the midsection and launched him skyward.
His friends were all really concerned since he was completely unconscious. He received pain alleviation from the emergency services and was bandaged in the hospital.
He was later informed that the driver was Wesley Fofana, but at the time he had no idea who it was. Dean, who supports Brentford, made a joke about a famous supporter of their neighbors being eliminated by a player from a rival team.
The source claimed that because there was “no blame attached” and the accident occurred “because it was not anybody’s fault,” Gaffney, who portrayed Robbie Jackson on the BBC’s Eastenders, had never discussed it.
Gaffney’s representative declined to respond.
Fofana and Chelsea FC representatives remained silent.