‘The Office’ star Brian Baumgartner recalls how a childhood injury led to his successful acting career

The actor made an appearance on Nick Viall’s podcast, “The Viall Files,” where he opened up about a childhood injury that landed him in a wheelchair, disrupting his initial goal.

"If I had an early dream, it was that I was going to be a professional baseball player – all sports really, but baseball was really it for me – but my bone was twisted in my leg from birth, this was the kind of thing I could have lived with forever… my foot was slightly rotated from my knee," the 48-year-old explained. "It wasn’t dramatic, it was something that I could have lived with, but if you want to be a professional baseball player, no, you need everything aligned and to be able to run fast," he said. During his teenage years, Baumgartner underwent surgery to fix the issue. However, he said "something went wrong" during the procedure.