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Paul Wesley and Joan Rivers Weather an Airplane Lightning Strike

April 17, 2012 at 11:05 AM | by | Comments (0)

Frequent flyers know it isn't unusual for a plane to be struck by lightning, but Vampire Diaries' star Paul Wesley had to learn that lesson the hard way.

On Friday, while en route to an appearance at Toronto Comic Con 2012 with his wife Torrey DeVitto, Wesley realized his plane had been struck by lightning.

"There was a huge burst of light and this loud [sound]," he explained during an interview on Live! With Kelly.

"I didn't know anything about it and I thought Oh My God the plane is going down!," he said. "I was all frantic so I look behind me, to look at the other passengers, and who do I see, Joan Rivers, and she's just sitting there staring at me."

"I thought she was horrified, but maybe that's just the way she looks," he quipped, referring to Rivers' many plastic surgeries.

And, being famous, he immediately began thinking about what his legacy would be if the plane did go down.

"I thought, 'this is it, I'm going down with Joan Rivers'," Wesley continued. "All the news clippings would be 'Paul Wesley and Joan Rivers go down in Toronto', I would be forever associated with Joan Rivers."

Rivers had her own take on the lightning strike. "I just landed on a plane from L.A. that was struck by lightning," she tweeted. "Thank God everyone is fine. I now think Benjamin Franklin was an ass!"

[Photo: Live With Kelly]

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