CNN business correspondent Zain Asher revealed brother Chiwetel Ejiofor had been spared from a car accident at the age of 12 that killed everyone else aboard – including their father – in an emotional interview Thursday celebrating Ejiofor’s Best Actor Oscar nomination.
“Some people know this already, but when Chiwetel was 12 years old, he was in a car accident with my father. And everybody in the car died apart from Chiwetel,” Asher told anchor Brooke Baldwin during CNN Newsroom.
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Asher said the family is very proud of Ejiofor earning the actor nod for his performance in “12 Years a Slave,” but the day is bittersweet, since their father is no longer alive to see it.