Scott Eastwood Opens Up About 'Brutal' Grief After Girlfriend Jewel Brangman's Tragic Death From Faulty Car Airbag

Scott Eastwood got candid about his longtime girlfriend's death in a car accident and the "brutal" grief he suffered being far away on a movie set when the tragedy occurred, RadarOnline.com can reveal.

The 40-year-old actor dated competitive gymnast Jewel Brangman, 26, who died in 2014 when a faulty airbag deployed after a minor fender-bender.

Eastwood had the hard talk during an August 3 appearance on Dax Shepard's Armchair Expert podcast, as the host noted, "This is one of the craziest ways I've ever heard someone died. Her airbag went off, and it was defective?"

"It would have been a fender bender. Most people probably would have survived. She was essentially shot by the airbag," the Lucky Strike actor described about Brangman's horrific death.

While co-host Monica Padman was visibly moved, replying, "Oh my God, that's horrifying. That's so sad," Shepard wanted to know how Eastwood juggled mourning the death with his career as a 28-year-old aspiring actor.

"Being on a film set when someone passes away, or something happens, is really tough," Eastwood shared, noting it had "happened before" when he was away in England filming 2014's Fury when close pal and Flags of Our Fathers costar Paul Walker was killed in a fiery California car crash in November 2013.

"When you're on a film set, you don't have time to grieve because the show must go on," the Fast X star said of not being able to properly mourn. "You can't fly home. You're stuck. You've got to work."

"And I think I did the classic defense mechanism of compartmentalizing it for later," he added.

"I grieved later. I don't think that's a great thing, because you want to grieve with the people around you who knew them and were part of their lives. I think that's an important part of the grieving process," the California-born hunk shared.

"I had to process that grief later. That was tough," The Outpost star recalled.

Eastwood noted that working on far-flung film sets is hardly the glamorous life some fans may think it is, and robs actors of important moments in their lives.

"You could be in a hotel room across the globe. It's a lonely endeavor, right? People see it and think, 'Well, that's amazing.' But it's sometimes months of living out of a hotel room. Then real life happens—people die, people pass away, and you miss things. It's tough," Hollywood icon Clint Eastwood's son explained.