In mid-November, country star Carrie Underwood
tripped and fell on the stairs outside her Nashville home, and according to her publicist
she had "non life-threatening injuries including a broken wrist and cuts and abrasions." Underwood, one of the top-selling artists
in country music, tweeted an update at the time to her eight million followers. "I just wanted to let everyone know that I'm
doing great. Had surgery on my wrist yesterday & all went
well," she said, and jokingly added, "I'll be setting off airport metal detectors from
now on." However, on New Year's Day, Underwood sent
a letter to her fan club members and revealed that her injuries were actually more serious
than initially reported. "There is also another part of the story that
I haven't been ready to talk about, since I have still been living it and there has
been much uncertainty as to how things will end up," she wrote.
"It's crazy how a freak random accident can
change your life." Underwood, 34, explained that in addition
to her broken wrist, she injured her face. "I'll spare you the gruesome details, but
when I came out of surgery the night of my fall, the doctor told Mike that he had put
between 40-50 stitches in," she wrote, referring to her husband, hockey player Mike Fisher. "Now here we are 7 weeks later and, even though
I've had the best people helping me, I'm still healing and not looking quite the same." The singer didn't go into detail, but said
she's going into the recording studio next week to work on new music - so presumably,
she'll appear in public sometime in the not-distant future. The next major country music event is the
Academy of Country Music Awards in April.
A week before her fall, Underwood co-hosted
the Country Music Association Awards with Brad Paisley for the 10th year in a row. "When I am ready to get in front of a camera,
I want you all to understand why I might look a bit different," Underwood wrote. "I'm hoping that, by then, the differences
are minimal, but, again, I just don't know how it's all going to end up." After spending most of 2016 on tour supporting
her fifth studio album, "Storyteller," Underwood said early last year that she planned to take
"a little break" from music to spend time with her husband and toddler son. She has been mostly out of the public eye
since her accident, except for posing for a photo with a cast member from Bravo's "Below
Deck," who spotted her at the gym in December.
Ultimately, Underwood said in her message
to fans, she's relieved things turned out the way they did. "I am grateful that it wasn't much, much worse,"
she wrote, adding that she's going through physical therapy for her wrist. "I've still got a ways to go in the recovery
process, but it's encouraging to see every day be a little better than the last." Thank you for watching. Please Subscribe and don't forget to press
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