Overview
- Eastwood told Dax Shepard’s podcast that his then-girlfriend, Jewel Brangman, died in a 2014 car crash after an airbag “shot a projectile” through her body.
- He said the airbag involved had been subject to a recall and that what might have been a nonfatal fender bender became fatal because of the component’s failure.
- Eastwood said he learned of the crash while on a film set, that he compartmentalized his emotions, and that he missed Brangman’s funeral because work kept him from returning home.
- Brangman was reported to be a model and gymnast who was 26 at the time and the actor says they had been together for three to four years; Eastwood first referenced the loss publicly in 2016.
- These details are presented as Eastwood’s first‑person account and have not been independently verified, and his remarks highlight both the human toll of delayed grieving and potential renewed attention to recalled airbag safety.