Kathie Lee Gifford was recently hospitalized after suffering a fall amid her hip replacement surgery recovery.
The TV host, 70, revealed to PEOPLE that she fractured her pelvis in two places after she tripped and fell at her home.
Gifford — who underwent a ‘total’ hip replacement two months ago — remained in hospitalized for over a week so she could do physical therapy.
She said the fractures were ‘unbelievably painful’ and called it a ‘humbling experience.’
The day before her fall, Gifford explained that she had ‘weakened my body’ by ‘[moving] 300 books by myself.’
Kathie Lee Gifford was recently hospitalized after suffering a fall while recovering from her hip replacement surgery; seen in 2022
‘It’s my own fault,’ the former Today show host remarked.
The next day, Gifford ‘just tripped’ while trying to quickly get to her front door.
‘It didn’t take much, because I was weak in that spot. And the next thing you know, I am back in the hospital with a fractured pelvis: the front and the back,’ she told the outlet on Tuesday.
‘That’s more painful than anything I went through with the hip. The pelvis is unbelievably painful. but anyway, here I am.’
Gifford said that her lengthy hospital stay was her choice because ‘I don’t trust myself.’
‘You think you know your body and the next thing you know, your body changes when you get older. And as much as I don’t wanna think about it, I am,’ she said.
But Gifford isn’t letting her latest health scare get her down.
“It’s summer for everybody but me. But it’s OK. I’m going to get out to my little farm one of these days and stick my feet in my salt pool,’ she told PEOPLE.
‘The Lord is telling me it’s time to slow down. I’ve been running my whole life. The Lord is telling me, “You’ve planted a gazillion roses. Try smelling them.”‘
The TV host, 70, told PEOPLE that she fractured her pelvis in two places after she tripped and fell at her home; seen in 2018
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