Katie Lee Gifford was not too long ago hospitalized attributable to a fall.
The 70-year-old TV persona instructed Folks that she suffered a fall, which fractured her pelvis in two locations, amid her restoration from hip substitute surgical procedure.
Gifford instructed the outlet that she had overexerted herself transferring books for a ebook signing occasion in Nashville and wound up tripping the subsequent day when she went to reply the door for her mates at her house.
“It didn’t take much, because I was weak in that spot,” Gifford instructed the outlet. “The next thing you know, I am back in the hospital with a fractured pelvis, the front and the back. That’s more painful than anything I went through with the hip. The pelvis is unbelievably painful.”
“You think you know your body and the next thing you know, your body changes when you get older,” the previous At present present anchor shared. “As much as I don’t wanna think about it, I am.”
Earlier this month — earlier than the pelvis harm — Gifford appeared on the At present present, returning to studio 1A to take a seat down with Hoda Kotb, 59. Gifford shared that she was on the highway to restoration after her hip substitute whereas selling her new novel, Herod and Mary: The True Story of the Tyrant King and the Mom of the Risen Savior.
Previous to her process, Gifford was in “agonizing pain” and had “one of the worst hips” her physician had ever seen. Gifford stated she had her hip substitute surgical procedure a couple of month in the past.
“I had been in such agonizing pain,” Gifford stated, noting that her bodily discomfort “was terrible” earlier than surgical procedure.
“My doctor finished the surgery, came in to tell me it went beautifully and then said, ‘Kathie, how have you been existing all this time?'” Gifford recalled. “He said, ‘It’s one of the worst hips I’ve ever seen.'”
Gifford’s lively life-style could also be partially guilty for her hip deterioration.
“You’re always on the go,” Kotb instructed Gifford. The 2 co-hosted At present collectively for 11 years earlier than Gifford retired and relocated to Nashville in 2019. “I never once saw you stop, even if you were in the car. I remember, you’d be writing notes. You’re always- your brain, your body is always working.”
In April, Gifford sat down with ET‘s Rachel Smith for an intimate interview, the place she addressed her resolution to go away two of TV’s hottest morning reveals: At present and Dwell! With Regis and Kathie Lee.
“Part of it is just gut instinct, you know? I’ve been in this business 60 years now, so I’ve had a lot of failures and a lot of successes — successes beyond my wildest dreams,” Gifford instructed ET. “You’re sitting right now under four Emmys I never dreamed I’d receive. I’m grateful for them but, the older I get, the less that matters as well.”
She added, “I look at [my Emmys] and I’m grateful, thank you, Lord. But my trophies are the people that I’ve touched in life, the people [in] both of those places. I’ve worked 15 years with Regis, and 11 years with Hoda. The trophies we gather in life that truly matter are human, you know.”
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