At 70, Kathie Lee Gifford ‘Miracle’ Health Update After Fall
Kathie Lee Gifford shared a “miracle” health update after fracturing her pelvis during an at-home fall.
“I realized that I wasn’t in any pain,” she said.
The fall happened shortly after she recovered from hip replacement surgery.
Shortly after recovering from hip replacement surgery, Kathie Lee Gifford found herself back in the hospital—this time, with a fractured pelvis after she fell down the stairs at home. The former broadcaster shared the news with People on July 30, and two weeks later, she gave a “miracle” health update about her recovery post-fall.
She hopped on air with her former co-workers at Today during their morning broadcast and gave them the scoop. “I was out in my little farm here, I was walking around [with] a walker,” she explained. “But I realized that I wasn’t in any pain.... I was in no pain at all. And I was off painkillers, I was off all that stuff!”
She was surprised by the sensation—assuming she should be in a lot of pain—and immediately contacted her doctor, who told her to come in for another X-ray. “He comes in with my X-ray and goes, ‘Look at this Kathie. You want to see your X-ray?’ And I go, ‘That’s my X-ray?’ He goes, ‘Yeah. You’re completely healed. You are cured,’” she recalled. She also remembers him saying: “‘You are healed. It is a miracle. Now you can have one glass of wine if you’d like.’”
Gifford shared that she fell last month and spent over a week in the hospital after she rushed down the stairs of her four-story brownstone to let in a friend who was locked outside in 100-degree heat. “I just went too fast in stupid shoes and I went tumbling,” she said. Her pelvis cracked in the front and back, she added, which “didn’t take much” because hip replacement recovery left her weak in that area, she told People. At the time, she said the injury was “more painful than anything I went through with the hip.”
She called it all a “humbling” experience. “You think you know your body and the next thing you know, your body changes when you get older,” she said. “And as much as I don’t wanna think about it, I am.” That makes her all the more grateful for another chance at recovery. “If people are out there looking for hope, waiting for their miracles. Keep waiting guys,” she told Today. “I’m deeply grateful.”
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