Gwyneth PaltrowGwyneth Paltrow has been left with permanent numbness in one of her legs after damaging her knee on the set of Iron Man. The actress bravely tried to act on through the pain, unaware that the injury needed surgery.

She says, “I broke my knee - because I’m a moron and I’m always bashing into things by accident. I’ve broken my toes 30 times. I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I bashed my knee, it really hurt.”

The accident even caused her to come to blows with the film’s director, Jon Favreau, who thought she was exaggerating how much pain she was in. Paltrow explains, “I kept exercising and running around in the movie. Then it really started to expand.”

“In one scene I’m running away from Ironmonger - the bad Iron Man - and I said to Jon, ‘My knee is really hurting, I don’t know how many times I can do this.’ He was rolling his eyes, saying ‘you’re fine’.”

“But I went to the doctor and I had a fracture so bad they had to do surgery the next day. They put cement in there! So I felt very smug and he apologized. It still doesn’t feel right. I had a nerve problem. My legs don’t feel the same. Sometimes it happens with surgery. If I get a wax, one leg hurts more than the other.”