Carrie Underwood Makes Her First Public Appearance since Horrible Face Injury on ACM Awards

9Carrie’s trauma of November

Carrie suffered a nasty fall in her Nashville home in November when she fell down the stairs and was injured her severely. Apart from a broken wrist, she also suffered a facial injury that required almost 50 stitches. The singer kept her face covered most of the time to allow herself to heal. She gave her fans a few details of her accident on her website.

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10She was traumatized but pulled through

In a Note to her fans on her website she wrote “In addition to breaking my wrist, I somehow managed to injure my face as well. I’ll spare you the gruesome details, but when I came out of surgery the night of my fall, the doctor told [Underwood’s husband] Mike that he had put between 40 and 50 stitches in.”

11She is healing well she says

In her website post last week, she also said that she was feeling good as her face was healing well. “First off, physically, I’m doing pretty darn good these days!” she wrote. “My wrist is almost back to normal, about 90% there…and the docs say that last 10% will come in time. And my face has been healing pretty nicely as well. I definitely feel more like myself than I have in a while.” 

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12She says she never felt the same after the accident

The ACM Awards Night was Underwood’s first Television appearance since her fall. She looked beautiful in her sparkling glittery dress and rhinestones beneath her eyes. Underwood has admitted that she never quite felt the same since her accident “ When I am ready to get in front of a camera, I want you all to understand why I might look a bit different," she said. However, she hardly looked different during Sunday’s performance.

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13A standing ovation

After her performance, she received a standing ovation and was also congratulated by Keith Urban who won vocal event of the year for his “The Fighter” Underwood was choked up and was heard saying “Im still shaky”. You can watch a few excerpts of her performance and the ACM in the video below.