Tom Hanks revealed that he made the grave mistake of eating a burrito before skydiving with his son Chet Wilson. Watch the actor relive the hilarious moment on The Ellen DeGeneres Show here.
. After being roped into skydiving by his daredevil son,, 29, Tom admitted that the consequences of eating a burrito before jumping out of a plane never occurred to him.
"When he turned, I think, 21, he wanted to go—I said, ‘What would you like for your birthday?' And he said, ‘I wanna go skydiving!'" the Oscar winner told host."So, we went tandem skydiving—tandem, so you're attached to somebody who knows what they're doing." After describing the terrifying feeling of free-falling into the air, Tom explained how the burrito betrayed him."Then [the instructor] popped the shoot and we stopped. And she was doing this thing of swinging us around—steering us around," he said while demonstrating the nausea-inducing movements."And I had had a huge breakfast burrito before the plane went off.
After hearing the story, Ellen was quick to call out Tom for making such a rookie mistake."Well, I have to say, maybe having a huge breakfast burrito before you were going to jump out of a plane—bad," she said."Had I been with you, I would have said, ‘Don't eat the whole thing.'"Switching gears, the duo discussed Tom's latest role of
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