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American actress Jenifer Lewis has revealed in a post on Twitter that she was operated on in Nairobi after a near fatal fall in Tanzania.

While replying to a question in which country exactly she fell after TMZ Tweeted that it happened in Africa (it is a country after all). Jenifer Lewis apparently fell 10 feet from a hotel balcony while vacationing in Tanzania in December 2022. After the incident, she was airlifted to Nairobi where she received the much needed surgery. The surgery apparently took 9 hours and it took place at Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi and she was in ICU for 6 days (10 days in the hospital in total). She talked about how well she was taken care of at the hospital.

Jenifer Lewis was in Africa in November 2022 and visited Cape Town and Rwanda. She later travelled to Tanzania where the accident occurred. According to her interview with Good Morning America

“When the sun sets in the Serengeti, there are no streetlights. It is pitch black. I was escorted to the lodge, my room, but I wasn’t given a tour. I should’ve been given tour. I laid out my safari clothes, and I saw the infinity pool out on my deck, so I went out. I was just taking in the fact that I was back in the Serengeti once again, and I’m walking, and all of a sudden – bam – I had fallen 10 feet into a dry ravine full of boulders and stones and sharp rocks.”

She has since made a full recovery.

Jenifer Lewis is an American actress who began her career appearing in Broadway musicals and worked as a back-up singer for Bette Midler before appearing in films, Beaches and Sister Act. She has more than 300 appearances in film and television. Jenifer stars on the hit show Black-ish (ABC), where her hilarious portrayal of Ruby Johnson earned her a nomination for the 2016 Critics Choice Award.