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The "Pitch Perfect" star discussed his arrested start in comedy radio on a recent live episode of the viral interview show "Hot Ones."

Adam Devine first found comedy success after being hit by a cement truck — then puberty happened

The "Pitch Perfect" star discussed his arrested start in comedy radio on a recent live episode of the viral interview show "Hot Ones."

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Adam Devine could have been the next Howard Stern.

The *Pitch Perfect *star recently looked back on how a brutal cement truck accident abruptly altered his plans for the future, and how going through puberty shortly thereafter altered them yet again.

In a recent appearance on the viral interview program *Hot Ones*, host Sean Evans asked Devine about his pre-fame days calling in to local radio stations and doing celebrity impressions. "First of all," Devine alerted the live audience of Monday's episode, "some people don't know, but I was hit by cement truck when I was like 11 years old, and I couldn't walk...so I was laid up just in my wheelchair and I couldn't be the professional athlete that I thought I was going to be. So, I'd call into the radio station and do different characters."

Devine launched into a — *cough* — pitch perfect impression of late *SNL *star Chris Farley before explaining that "one day my voice changed — like, I hit puberty, right? — over the weekend. Then I called in, and they're like, 'This isn't Adam.'"

Adam Devine in 'The Out-Laws' with Nina Dobrev.

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Devine recalled pleading with the on-air DJ that he was, in fact, the wunderkind impressionist who had been wowing listeners. But sadly, "They didn't believe me, and they wouldn't let me back on the air," he said.

The comedian explained that he'd never actually volunteered any salient information about his background to the radio workers, like, say, the fact that he was a child.

"They didn't know for the longest time. I would call in and never said who I was, and they were like, 'This is this going so well. We want you to be part of the drive-time hour,'" he said.

With the carrot of fame dangling before him, but the roadblocks of puberty holding him back from advancing, Devine convinced his mother to drive him down to the station so he could plead his case in person.

"So she wheeled me down to the station...and they were like, 'Oh, we didn't realize you were a child,'" Devine reflected, joking, "'We thought you were mentally disturbed adult.'"

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Being underage, the station told Devine they couldn't pay him in anything beyond "Cranberries and Marcy's Playground CDs." That was the end of his career as a radio star as he knew it. But Devine would soon find himself cast in the Diane Keaton comedy *Mama's Boy*, and appear in a memorable segment of an episode of the sketch comedy series *Nick Cannon Presents: Short Circuitz*.

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Devine has spoken about being hit by a cement truck at length. He revealed in April that after numerous surgeries and "so much pain," he was recently told by a doctor that he was dying.

But the actor has pushed through such grim prognostications, continuing to act in whatever way he's physically able, which lately has resulted in a number of voice roles in animated series and films. Medically, Devine has also shared some good recent news, detailing in the same April interview that a stem cell treatment resulted in him feeling "the best I've been now for the past three years."****

You can watch the rest of Devine's interview on *Hot Ones *above.

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