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Chris Kattan looks pretty damn good on Dancing With the Stars, but as we previously reported, the SNL alum has been suffering from a 20-year long injury after breaking his neck. And on Monday’s episode, we got to find out exactly how it happened.

“I broke my neck and I had four surgeries regarding that the last 20 years basically. One in my back, one through the throat … I had to be careful for a really long time,” he said on the show. He went on to say it was a “stunt” thing and couldn’t “get into it.”

(Hmm… could it be from a famous little neck bang perhaps?)

“When you have surgery, you’re out of commission for months. It’s embarrassing. You cant go out in public,” he said. In recent years, Chris got our attention for acting erratically in public thanks to what he says were due to a prescription of pain killers after surgery.

He and his dance partner Witney Carson have been dealing with his injury, but Chris is rising up to the top and is a total trooper.

“It’s definitely concerning because breaking your neck is a serious injury,” Witney previously said to People. “I’m a little scared, but I want to push him so the judges see that he is a contender. It’s a hard balance. The first two weeks [of rehearsal] have been a lot of test and trial to see what he’s capable of. But he’s fearless.”