Imagine you have a big professional appearance lined up. It's important that you look your very best with a national audience watching. And then, unfortunately, you fall down hard and visibly damage your front teeth mere days prior. That actually happened to country music singer Carly Pearce. She recently opened up about the unpleasant incident on Instagram.
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Pearce Fell on Halloween
The "Every Little Thing" singer, 35, made a video about her fall and its painful consequences. She is talking candidly in her kitchen while peeling carrots. Five years ago in 2020, Pearce was poised to perform at the CMAs to sing "I Hope You're Happy Now" with Lady A's Charles Kelley. It would be her major moment.
But there was a snag. Just days before the event on November 11, Pearce was in costume on Halloween as a cat. She tripped and fell down, ending up smack-dab on her face. In fact, Pearce took such a hard tumble that she was unconscious for the moment.
She Could Not Stop Herself From Falling
She said in the video, "I've never talked about this publicly, but I'm ready. So it was Halloween 2020, and I went to a Halloween party dressed like a cat. It was pretty early in the night, and I was going down the stairs and I fell."
Pearce added, "It was one of those kind of falls that you don't catch yourself, so I landed straight on my mouth. It knocked me out, and I remember waking up to my friend FaceTiming my mom to show her what had happened."
Photos Show the Unsightly Aftermath
Pearce depicted the sad state of her mouth after the accident by showing photos. As if anything could have made the situation worse, it was a Sunday. Luckily, Pearce found a dentist and a plastic surgeon to kindly pitch in and assist her on the following day.
She described what went on. It sounds like a harrowing ordeal to patch up Pearce's battered mouth. "I ended up, the next day, realizing it was a Sunday and also realizing that the CMAs were very much approaching. I'm gonna insert a picture for you of what my mouth looked like right after it happened... so I ended up spending a very long time the next day with the sweet dentist and sweet plastic surgeon that came in on their off days after Halloween to help me with my face."
There Was Considerable Damage To Fix
The oral damage she did was very significant. It required lots of repairing. Pearce explained, "When I made it to the dentist we realized that I had almost bit straight through my mouth, so I have to get skin removed in here and get seven stitches put in my bottom lip. I spent the afternoon with the dentist who was able to put a fake piece on each of my front teeth and told me that I could come back after the CMAs to get root canals."
She says she wound up seeing the plastic surgeon daily and evidently, it was worth it. As for how she fared at the CMAs, Pearce earned an award for Music Event of the Year. That, she said, "was a moment that I'll never forget." Pearce will probably never forget that fall either. She shared that she still cannot "bite straight on."
