Even though she is back on the road for her tour, Amy Grant says she’s still recovering after a serious bike accident near her Nashville home in 2022.
In a new interview with E! News, the country singer revealed that she still has “issues with my short-term memory” and balance.
“My balance is still weird,” she tells the outlet, adding she has joked about it to her audiences.
“You know, sometimes I walk around like I’m drunk, and you just have to laugh about all of it,” she says. “I can’t remember what I can’t remember.”
The bike accident, which left the singer unconscious for 10 minutes, caused a traumatic brain injury and memory loss. It also caused a cyst she hadn’t known about in her throat to go “into hypergrowth,” she says.
Grant, 63, had a five-hour long surgery to have it removed in which doctors cut open her throat.
“I actually had to learn to sing again,” she tells E! of the January 2023 surgery.
Despite the cyst and the traumatic brain injury, Grant says she’s doing great.
“I just felt like an old, beat-up car that went in and got a paint job and had the dents knocked out,” she told E!.
Grant’s comments echo the February 2023 interview she did with TODAY’s Craig Melvin. At the time, she said that she felt “fantastic” — despite all her recent “trips to the shop.”
“I feel fantastic,” she said. “I mean, really from 2020 on, I feel like I had to, if I were a car, I’ve made a lotta trips to the shop. And I feel like I’m emerging. I went, ‘Oh man, I feel like a classic now.’ And actually sort of re-revved up in a really beautiful way.”
What happened in Amy Grant’s bike accident?
Grant was riding her bicycle with her friend near her Nashville, Tennessee, home when she hit a pothole. Though she was wearing a helmet, the singer sustained a serious brain injury as well as cuts and abrasions from the crash. Her rep told TODAY at the time that Grant was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center and stayed for a few days for treatment.
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