Last November, Carrie Underwood suffered a fall that left her with 40 stitches in her face and a broken wrist. The country singer warned her fans that she may look 'a bit different' following the accident, but initially gave no further details on the matter.
Now, the mum-of-one is nearly fully recovered, and in a recent interview on iHeartRadio's The Bobby Bones Show she opened up about what happened.
The Grammy Award winner had to take her dogs out before bed on the night of the fall.
“I was taking the dogs out to go pee one last time, and I just — I tripped. There was one step, and I didn’t let go of the leashes! Priorities! So that’s why my left hand’s fine. But I went to catch myself and I just missed a step," she recalled.
“If I had fallen anywhere else, I would have been perfectly fine. But it was one step that messed everything up."
She ended up landing on the area around her mouth.
The 35-year-old shared more details with Storme Warren on Sirius XM's The Highway channel, saying, "I thought I just busted my lip."
“Then I walked inside and took the dog leashes off and took my coat off and went to go survey the damage and was like, ‘Oh, no!’ I’m acting very calm about it now, but … it wasn’t pretty. I chipped my tooth but it was just my skin, thank the Lord. Stitches and all that stuff.”
One of the most concerning parts of the incident for the American Idol winner was how her three-year-old son Isaiah Fisher, who she shares with husband Mike Fisher, would react to her facial injury.
"For a while, I was worried he would be scared of me," Carrie said on The Bobby Bones Show.
"But now if I put makeup on, he's like, 'Mommy, your boo-boo's all gone.'"
The 'Jesus Take the Wheel' singer said that the broken wrist actually ended up being one of the most difficult aspects of the ordeal.
"I can't use my appendage and I'm trying to pick my kid up and make food and do mom stuff," she explained. The songwriter now has a metal plate in her wrist.
The timing of the fall ended up being quite fortunate, Carrie said: "I was lucky that when it happened, everything was kind of shutting down in the music world and we had the holidays and stuff like that.
"I was at a point where I didn't know how things were going to end up. I didn't know what was going to go on. I didn't know what it was going to heal like."
Thankfully, though, the mum says she was ' very fortunate in the healing process'.
We are happy to hear Carrie is doing better, and we hope that the rest of her road to recovery is smooth sailing.
