The musician, who is currently on tour with the rock band, revealed he was knocked to the ground while having a cigarette in March of this year.
Rick Allen has revealed he was blindsided when he was attacked outside a hotel in Florida following a concert earlier this year.
“I heard a couple of steps and then I just saw this (flash) and the next thing I knew was I was on the ground,” the Def Leppard drummer, 59, told ABC’s Good Morning America in an interview broadcast on Monday.
“I landed on my backside – hit my head on the pavement.”
Def Leppard were in Fort Lauderdale to perform at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino when Allen was attacked on 13 March while smoking a cigarette outside a hotel.
Police arrested Max Hartley, a 19-year-old from Avon, Ohio, who has pleaded not guilty to two counts of battery and four counts of criminal mischief, according to court records.
