Kathie Lee Gifford gave an update on her health on Wednesday after spending more than a week in the hospital with a broken pelvis.
The 70-year-old entertainer, who recently revealed why she was turned down for Charlie’s Angels, said she is happy to be back home after being released from hospital, where she suffered a broken pelvis in two places while recovering from hip surgery.
“I’m doing fine!” the star said AND. ‘I’m glad I’m out of the hospital. As much as all the people are so nice to me, they’ve really taken good care of me, but there’s no place like home.’
Gifford said that as she recovered from her hip surgery, she found herself doing more signings and traveling, which eventually led to overexertion and physical strain.
“That’s what usually happens — you think you’re better, because you’re so much better, and then you feel like you’re completely back to normal, but you’re not,” she added. “Our bones, things like that, sometimes don’t heal for months — even though you feel so much better.”
Kathie Lee Gifford gave an update on her health on Wednesday after spending more than a week in the hospital with a broken pelvis (seen in 2022)
The 70-year-old entertainer said she is happy to be home after being released from the hospital, where she suffered a two-way fracture to her pelvis while recovering from hip surgery (seen in 2019)
The TV personality shared that she had a major book signing to promote her new book and that she managed to physically move 300 books out of her home in just a day and a half.
‘I knew that night, when I went to sleep, I said, “Kathie, you’ve done too much today. You’re hurting again where you weren’t supposed to be hurting.” I said, “I’ll sleep it off.” And so the next day I did the signing [and] “It went really, really well,” Gifford recalls.
To celebrate her success, she organized a girls’ day out. When her friend arrived to find herself locked out, she called Gifford. In Gifford’s rush to help, things went wrong.
‘On the way down [the stairs] “And in my eagerness to get to my friend and get her out of the heat… I missed a step and I fell,” she explained. “It’s my own fault. I shouldn’t have been in a hurry, you know? What am I in a hurry for?”
She is now recovering at home and undergoing daily physiotherapy.
“They’ve got to get you up and moving. You don’t want your bones to atrophy,” she said. “It could be anywhere from three months to, you know, a month to who knows? I’ve just got to listen to them this time.”
She also makes sure she stays cheerful during the holiday months.
“It’s summer for everyone except me,” Gifford said People on Tuesday. ‘But it’s okay. I’m going to go to my little farm one of these days and put my feet in my saltwater pool.’
“I’m doing great!” the star told ET. “I’m glad to be out of the hospital. As much as all these people have been so nice to me, they’ve really taken care of me, but there’s no place like home; (seen in 2018)
Gifford revealed that as her recovery from hip surgery progressed, she began doing more signings and traveling, which eventually led to overexertion and physical strain; (seen in April)
Gifford promised to take it easy during her recovery.
“The Lord tells me it’s time to slow down. I’ve been running all my life. The Lord tells me, ‘You planted a gazillion roses. Try to smell them.'”
Earlier this month, Gifford announced that she had undergone “total” hip surgery in June after experiencing “excruciating pain.”
‘[My doctors] “I was looking for the problem in my spine,” Gifford said on TODAY“They finally figured out what it was, and by that point I was already in terrible pain.”
After the successful surgery, Gifford said her doctor told her she had “one of the worst hips I’ve ever seen.”
“It was horrible,” Gifford said of the ordeal. “You can’t fool your body, and it knows how old you are, and it knows where you’ve been.”
She talked extensively about her recovery PEOPLEand admitted to the newspaper that it was “one of the most painful situations of my entire life.”
Gifford’s surgeon told her that her hips were “damaged all the way down” and that her active lifestyle was the cause.
The day before her fall, Gifford explained that she had “weakened my body” by “[moving] ‘300 Books By Myself’ at a book launch in Nashville, Tennessee; seen in March
“You’ve climbed mountains, you’ve made movies, you’ve been on stages. You’ve never taken off your high heels, you’ve kept going and that’s why you’re going through what you’re going through,” she recalled the surgeon telling her.
Although her recovery was “very difficult,” Gifford said she has no regrets.
‘[I ask myself] Would I change that? No, I did what God put me on earth to do,” she said.
“Every year I did what He told me to do.”