The Extraordinary Life of Joaquin Phoenix

Published on January 27, 2020 By Leah Goldberg

Joaquin nearly died in a car crash

In 2006, Joaquin was driving close by his home in the Hollywood Hills. Suddenly his breaks stopped working and he drove his car off the road, flipped it over and crashed it.

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Miraculously, while he was stuck in his car, someone noticed that he was about to light a cigarette and stopped him when he noticed that petrol had leaked into the cabin. He smashed the rear window letting Phoenix escape. It turned out that the person who helped him was German film director Werner Herzog (Jack Reacher, What Dreams May Come).