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Broderick and Grey were in a car accident in Ireland that left two people dead. He was behind the wheel and suffered serious injuries. Thirty years later, she would require spinal surgery as a result of the head-on collision. But in the meantime, news of the accident – and questions about it – followed her in the wake of her biggest success. Howard Stern joked about it on air; Bryant Gumbel inquired about it during a Today Show segment that was supposed to be about Dirty Dancing.
“The idea that the most traumatic tragedy, the most impactful experience of my life, was sandwiched –” Grey held up her hands, palms facing her collarbone and brought them together with a firm thump – “They are inextricably linked. The pleasure of that moment, that surprise arrival, it never felt good. It never felt like what I’d hoped my whole life it would feel like.”
Jennifer Grey and Charlie Sheen in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986), written and directed by John Hughes. Photograph: CBS via Getty Images
She added, “We were so young. And there’s not a week that goes by that I don’t think about it. That I don’t think about the families. That I don’t think about Matthew. It’s just in me. It’s part of my topographical map, the landscape of my life.”
