Gretchen Wilson’s 6-Month Wheelchair Recovery After Wedding Injury

Gretchen Wilson revealed she had an accident at a wedding that left her leg ‘shattered.’ 

The Redneck Woman singer, 51, recently opened up about her leg injury left her wheelchair-bound for many months.

She said the ‘setback’ happened while circle dancing with a six-year-old boy to Ring Around the Rosie when she lost her footing. 

During an appearance on Taste of Country Nights with Evan Paul this week, she recalled: ‘We were at a wedding reception and it was on the beach, so they had thrown one of those Astroturf carpeting things over the sand.’

The country music star, who was the latest winner of The Masked Singer, said she was ‘doing the spin at 100 mph’ when her ankle twisted in one of the holes from the Astroturf.

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‘It was ugly,’ she admitted. ‘You seen those videos online with the foot hanging the wrong way? It was one of those. Once I went down, I did not get back up.’ 

She told the outlet that in the moment, she thought that she wouldn’t be able to perform again. 

Wilson also recalled how it took nine months before she could even put any pressure on that foot following her injury. 

She said that after months of recovery, she received the offer to join The Masked Singer — which would require her to not only sing but also dance again. 

She admitted that she previously rejected that call in the past but wanted to get back on stage again and welcomed the opportunity. 

‘All the choreography, it was stressful, but it was good for me,’ she said.

‘It was hard work. It was really good for me and I proved a lot to myself,’ she said while reflecting on her time on the singing competition series. 

Wilson appeared on the 13th season of Fox’s reality show and won as the character Pearl. 

Earlier this month, the country singer, who had been caught up in scandal and arrests in prior years, said she ‘felt bad’ that she won the Golden Mask trophy over Boogie Woogie, who was revealed as singer Andy Grammer.

‘I was absolutely positive that Boogie won. I thought he was just the most amazing singer,’ Wilson, whose last album was her 2017 release Ready To Get Rowdy, told People. 

‘In my head, he had won it weeks before,’ she confessed.

‘I was so stunned because I had myself ready to hear that I was second place. I was so ready for it, I had already decided that that’s what it should be in my head.’ 

After she was announced as the winner, she admitted: ‘But being a mom, I felt bad. It was like, “No, no, no, no, no, no, I’m happy with second! He won! 

‘I think that’s probably how he would’ve felt too. He’s just such an incredibly, incredibly likable person. I wished I could have shared it with him.’ 

After being unmasked she said that she felt her win was the ‘career comeback’ she was waiting for. 

Wilson first rose to fame with her first single Redneck Woman in 2004 as her debut album became certified 5x platinum. 

‘I’ve had a rough couple of years. I was injured. I was in a wheelchair,’ she said.

‘And there was a moment where I didn’t think I’d ever get back to this place,’ Wilson admitted.

‘And I worked really hard, I prayed really hard, and I got so far. But this opportunity has really proven to me that there’s nothing I can’t do.’