Nick Jonas Rib Injury: Shares Brothers Joe, Kevin Involvement

Getting better! Nick Jonas was involved in an on-set injury on May 2021, and the singer is speaking out about his “brutal” experience cracking a rib just before hosting the Billboard Music Awards.

The “Sucker” singer and his brothers Joe and Kevin Jonas are gearing up for a new NBC show titled Olympic Dreams Featuring Jonas Brothers. According to the network, it’s “a one-hour special featuring the Jonas Brothers pursuing their Olympic dreams,” set to air just ahead of the Tokyo Olympics. The New Jersey natives “will be trained by some of Team USA’s best athletes as they compete against their biggest rivals — each other.” While filming the show, Nick took a bit of a tumble which led to the injury.

“We’re actually teaming up with [NBC] to do an Olympic dream show where we compete in track and field, gymnastics and some other Olympic sports, which left me a little injured last week,” he said Nick told E! News earlier this month. “But I’m feeling great, recovered really well, so it’s going to be a lot of fun.”

TMZ was first to break the news of Nick’s injury, reporting that the musician was taken to the hospital in an ambulance. Days later, he addressed the situation on an episode of The Voice and said that he’s “feeling OK.”

“I cracked a rib from a spill on a bike and a few other bumps and bruises, but I just want to go ahead and say that, in case I’m not as physically enthusiastic as I usually am,” Nick told the contestants.

Since his fall, Nick has opened up about the incident during multiple interviews. While appearing on Late Night With Seth Meyers, the Spaceman musician recounted the story of how his injury went down.

“We all looked at each other beforehand because the race was pretty intense. We said, ‘Just take it easy, let’s not overdo it.’ So I was being responsible, I wasn’t being overly competitive. But something happened. It was one of those things where the handlebars kind of got out from under me and I just tumbled,” Nick said. “When I sit upright like this, I’m totally fine. But it’s been a weird couple of days recovering from a rib injury. They basically tell you at the hospital, ‘There’s nothing we can do, you just have to wait it out.’ But it’s all good.”

Scroll through our gallery to see everything Nick has said about his recent injury.

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Feeling ‘Fortunate’

“We did just announce that we are doing this show with NBC for the Olympics called Olympic Dreams. Me and the brothers are competing against each other in Olympic sports, and one of the events required me riding a bicycle,” he told Extra. “Basically, I lost control of the bike and flipped off of it, kind of ugly. Again, I do feel really good … Just been getting rest when I am not on The Voice sitting in my chair … Honestly, I feel really fortunate, feel really good.”

He continued, “[It’s] just one of those injuries you can’t really do anything about, just have to wait it out and deal with some of the pain.”

Kevin’s Involvement

“We were shooting this thing and we had a bit of a tumble on a bike and I landed pretty hard. It was brutal,” he said on The Late Late Show with James Corden, noting that brother Kevin ran into him during the race.

Nick explained, “Basically I was there and the medics were attending to me. I was about to put on the gurney to get in the ambulance. Obviously, I had to call Priyanka [Chopra], my wife, to say, ‘This has happened,’ but I wasn’t really in a spot where I could talk to her because they were doing all the things they were doing. So it was a choice between Joe and Kevin. Who [do] you give your phone to to call your wife in a time of crisis? I gave it to Kevin.”

Airing the Injury

“I am, you know, now I think, seven, eight weeks removed from the injury. I’m doing a lot better. Nearly 100 percent. It’s not all that exciting,” Nick said on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on July 20. “It’s going to be in the show, which people should watch. But basically, you know, we trained with real Olympic athletes who have been doing this since they were probably four or five years old. … “Cut to the three of us trying to do that, and, you know, I took a spill. One of two spills I took on the show, and broke my rib.”

Breaking It DownNick Jonas Details ‘Brutal’ On-Set Injury: Everything the Singer Has Said About Cracking His Rib

Working on Recovery

Feeling ‘Fortunate’

Kevin’s Involvement

Feeling Better

Airing the Injury

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