Ouch! Billy Bush ended up in an L.A. hospital on Monday, November 27, after being hit in the head by a golf ball. 
 
 The former Today show cohost, shared three pictures on Instagram as he lay in a hospital bed at Cedars-Sinai Hospital. 
 
 “FORE!! Thanks nurse Katrina, jovi, Jenn, Mercy @cedarssinai for the bed, the care, the ice,” Bush captioned the pics. “I think I dodged a bullet…but sadly not a golf ball. Scan is clear, let the jokes begin #putmedownforpar.” 
 
 Bush’s accident comes two days after a report surfaced in The New York Times that Donald Trump is telling people that the infamous 2005 Access Hollywood tape featuring his vulgar conversation with Bush is fake. 
 
 In the story published on Saturday, November 25, the Times reported that the president “allegedly suggested to a senator earlier this year that [the tape] was not authentic, and repeated that claim to an adviser more recently.” 
 
 This is despite the 71-year-old publicly acknowledging that it was his voice on the tape and apologizing for his derogatory comments about women after the audio surfaced just before the presidential election in October 2016. 
 
 As previously reported, the former Apprentice host could be heard bragging to then Access Hollywood host Bush about sexually assaulting women, insinuating he could use his fame to force himself on them. 
 
 “I don’t even wait,” Trump said on the tape as Bush could be heard laughing. “And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything … grab them by the p–sy. You can do anything.” 
 
 “Obviously I’m embarrassed and ashamed,” Bush told Us in a statement immediately after the tape was released. “It’s no excuse, but this happened 11 years ago — I was younger, less mature and acted foolishly in playing along. I’m very sorry.” 
 
 The TV host, who was a new member of the Today team at the time, was initially suspended by NBC and then exited the show shortly afterward, after reaching a settlement with the network. 
 
 Bush split with wife Sydney Davis in September this year after almost two decades of marriage but a source told Us at the time that it had “nothing to do” with the Trump scandal. 
 
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 The former Today show co-host, 46, shared multiple photos Monday from a hospital bed at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, including a snap of himself laying down and another of him posing with a medical staff member. 
 
 “FORE!! Thanks nurse Katrina, jovi, Jenn, Mercy @cedarssinai for the bed, the care, the ice,” Bush wrote in the caption. “I think I dodged a bullet…but sadly not a golf ball. Scan is clear, let the jokes begin #putmedownforpar.” 
 
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 Billy Bush and Cedars-Sinai Hospital employee Billy Bush/Instagram 
 
 Bush’s accident comes more than two months after he announced in September that he and his wife of almost 20 years, Sydney Davis, were separating. 
 
 The father of three’s lawyer confirmed to PEOPLE in a statement that the couple were “on a short-term break,” while his rep told PEOPLE, “After almost 20 years of marriage, they have separated for the moment to evaluate their life together.” 
 
 “They love each other and their children deeply and are committed to a bright future,” the rep continued. 
 
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 Bush and Davis share three daughters: Josie, 19, Mary, 16, and Lillie, 12. 
 
 Their split came nearly a year after Bush parted ways with the Today show in the wake of his controversial, leaked 2005 conversation with Donald Trump, which came to light in a Washington Post article published in October 2016. 
 
 In his first televised interview since the tape was leaked back in October, Bush told ABC News’ Robin Roberts in May that the conversation brought his 16-year-old daughter to tears. 
 
 “She was really upset, and I said, ‘Mary, it’s, it’s, going to be OK. You know, don’t worry,’ ” said Bush, who was fired from Today several days after the tape’s release. “And she said, ‘No. Why were you laughing at the things that he was saying on that bus? Why were you playing along with it, Dad? It wasn’t funny.’ ” 
 
 “I said, ‘Mary, I am sorry. And there is no good answer for that,’ ” Bush said.
– Monday wasn't a great day for Billy Bush, but the former Today co-host kept his sense of humor: "FORE! ... I think I dodged a bullet... but sadly not a golf ball," he said in an Instagram post from Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. "Let the jokes begin," he added, thanking nurses and other hospital staff. Bush, who was hospitalized after being hit in the head by a golf ball, said the scan was clear, Us Weekly reports. The accident comes around a year after Bush parted ways with NBC over the infamous Trump Access Hollywood tape, and two months after he announced he was separating from wife Sydney Davis after almost 20 years of marriage, People reports.