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What Happened to Amy Grant? Updates on Singer’s Current Condition After Bike Accident
Singer Amy Grant has gotten candid about her road to recovery after suffering a scary bike in July 2022. The contemporary Christian artist revealed details about her injuries and condition in the months that followed. Scroll below for details on what happened to Amy.
What Happened to Amy Grant?
Amy was biking near the Harpeth Hills Golf Course in Nashville with a friend when she hit a pothole and fell off her bike. The Grammy winner was knocked out for nearly 10 minutes before an ambulance came and rushed her to Vanderbilt Medical Center. Amid Amy’s hospitalization for a concussion and multiple cuts and abrasions, her husband, Vince Gill, updated fans on his wife’s condition.
“My bride, Amy, is doing fine,” he told the crowd during an August 2022 concert, adding, “Thank God she was wearing her helmet.”
Amy broke her silence in an Instagram post on August 27, 2022, exactly one month after the crash.
“I want to say thank you to everyone who has written me a note, sent flowers or gifts, or said a prayer on my behalf,” she wrote. “I’m one month into a recovery that has held so many unexpected hidden gifts. On the advice of my doctors and other friends who have been through similar experiences of recovery, I am choosing to give myself the gift of a very simple fall season. I look forward to making music with Michael W. and Vince during the Christmas season. With deep appreciation and joy…. xo Amy.”
A few months after her accident, Amy returned to the stage to perform on her Christmas tour with Michael W. Smith. She admitted that she was still facing the effects of her injuries while getting back to her music career.
“Well, they said a 12 to 18-month recovery for a head injury and so every once in a while, I’ll be talking to somebody and they’ll say something that I guess I used to know, and I’ll gasp and go, ‘Are you kidding me?’” she reflected during a January 2023 interview with People.
She shared a specific anecdote relating to memory loss with E! News. “I was at dinner the other night with a high school friend,” she shared. “We used to spend the night at each other’s houses. I said, ‘I’m embarrassed to ask you, are you and your husband still together?’ She said that Douglas died seven years ago and it was like I had just heard it for the first time.”
Amy also faced difficulty with remembering song lyrics and revealed she had to use a teleprompter while performing at the Live at the Music Center: Concert Celebrating Jerry Mossa in January 2023, as well as during her Christmas tour at the end of 2022.
Still, she kept a positive outlook. “Six months in, so I feel really good!” she shared. “I anticipate just getting better.”
The musician credited her husband with helping her get through the recovery. “The biggest thing was in the two months after the wreck, it was really depressing,” she admitted. “Everything [was] canceled and I just said, “What if I’m never all the way back?’ And he said, ‘Things happen to people every day and you just have to take it one day at a time, and we’re here, and I love you.’ And that just kind of made every day of the journey okay. And I do feel fantastic.”
Why Did Amy Grant Have Surgery?
The Kennedy Center Honoree also experienced some hurdles when it came to her voice.
“[I was] working with a vocalist and she said, ‘What is happening in your throat? Lean your head back,’” Amy recalled during a March 2023 interview on Today. “And I said, ‘I know. It’s like I’ve got an Adam’s apple that keeps getting bigger.’ Unbeknownst to me, I’d had a thyroglossal duct cyst.”
The Georgia native underwent surgery to have the cyst removed earlier this year. The news came nearly two years after Amy underwent open heart surgery to fix a birth defect that led one side of her heart to enlarge. After all of her health issues, the songstress has maintained a positive outlook on life as she looks toward the future.
“I feel fantastic,” she said. “I mean, really from 2020 on, I feel like … if I were a car, I’ve made a lot of trips to the shop. And I feel like I’m emerging. I went, ‘Oh man, I feel like a classic now.’ And actually, sort of re-revved up in a really beautiful way.”
