America’s Got Talent’s Howie Mandel reveals he found wife lying in a pool of blood with her SKULL exposed after shocking drunken injury
Howie Mandel revealed his wife Terry Soil suffered a devastating facial injury after a recent night of partying during his Monday appearance on Live With Kelly And Mark.
The 68-year-old comedian and America’s Got Talent judge told shocked hosts he found his wife in a pool of blood after she was woken by a loud noise in the middle of the night during a recent trip to Las Vegas.
Howie said the two had been “partying” but it was “too much” for his “tipsy” wife of more than 40 years, although he said he didn’t realize she had had too much to drink before he went to bed.
“In the middle of the night she got up and – I don’t know where she went – but she walked into the wall,” he explained. “And she fell and hit the paneling. She hit it on her way down.
“She slipped, fell down, hit her eye, then fell to the ground and broke her cheek,” he said as Kelly Ripa grimaced as he described the injury.
Howie Mandel revealed that his wife Terry Soil suffered a devastating facial injury after a recent night of partying in Las Vegas during his appearance Monday on Live With Kelly And Mark; seen with Terry in 2019 in Hollywood
Howie shared a photo of Terry’s injuries, which included cuts on her forehead and cheek, a black eye and a huge purple bruise
“I heard ‘bang’ and ‘ahh’ and I woke up and said, ‘Where are you?’ Howie continued. And she said, ‘I don’t know. That’s what she said.’
The audience was then able to view the extent of Terry’s injuries in a close-up photo of the top half of her face, although fortunately this was after her cuts had been cleaned and the blood wiped from her face.
She had a large diagonal cut down the center of her face, surrounded by a purple bruise, and a fainter red cut running toward the top of her nose.
Terry had a swollen left eye with a discoloration covering her upper eyelid and running to the top of her cheek, with a blood-encrusted gash following the bottom of the bruise.
She also appeared to have a smaller cut or bruise lower on her cheek, just to the left of her upper lip.
She appeared to have the top of her head wrapped, and it was not clear if there was any damage beyond the part of her face shown.
Howie went on to explain how he discovered the shocking sight of his wife covered in her own blood.
‘I turn on the light, I look, I look around the bed. She’s lying in the corner, face down, and I didn’t know she was going to cut her head off. But the blood pools,” he explained.
Howie said the two had been drinking, but he didn’t realize how drunk his wife was. She got up in the middle of the night and fell, waking him. He found her in a pool of blood
After trying to use a cooling can to reduce the swelling, Terry tossed it aside due to the pain. “When she did that, I saw her head, and you could even see her skull. It opened up,” he said, shocking the hosts and the audience
Howie has been open in the past about his struggles with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and germophobia, but these issues didn’t stop him from rushing to help his bleeding wife.
‘I freaked out. I picked her up and put her on the bed. There is blood[where]’ he recalled. “I went to grab all the towels, and all the towels are covered in blood. And she says, “Give me ice cream. Get me ice cream.”
“I don’t know where to get ice cream,” he added jokingly.
He opted for the best remedy to reduce the swelling: a cold drink from the minibar in the room.
But Terry was in so much pain that she took the can from him after he touched it directly on her forehead and hurled it across the hotel room.
Howie then tried to wrap two cans in a towel, but she again threw them aside due to her severe pain.
“When she did that, I saw her head, and you could even see her skull. It opened up,” he said as shocked shouts came from the crowd. “I was interrupted.”
Instead of calling 911 directly for emergency assistance, Howie called the front desk and asked the staff to call 911, but they insisted on investigating the situation upstairs before calling for medical help.
He joked that they might have thought he caused his wife’s injuries because the room was covered in blood and the cans were all over the room, which the staff documented with photos as he begged them to call 911.
Howie called the front desk for help, but the staff insisted on seeing the room before calling 911; seen with Terry in 2008 in Hollywood
He joked that they might have thought he caused his wife’s injuries because the room was covered in blood and there were cans all over the room, which the staff took pictures of as he begged them to call 911.
Terry was still drunk at the hospital, but Howie said she made a full recovery. ‘There is no scar. She is beautiful’; seen with his America’s Got Talent costars Heidi Klum, Simon Cowell and Sofia Vergara
After they reached the hospital, Howie recounted a humorous moment when his wife panicked and called for a doctor.
She was still very drunk, so the doctor was able to help her calm down just by removing the sheet covering half of her face, which she apparently didn’t realize was blocking her view.
Fortunately, Terry has since made a full recovery.
“She’s absolutely perfect,” Howie reassured Kelly and Mark. ‘There is no scar. She is beautiful.’