Carrie Underwood Takes A Tumble During Rainy Concert Performance
Ever the consummate professional, Carrie Underwood seems to be in good spirits after a minor slip-up during her rainy Sunday concert in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Footage of Underwood’s June 9 performance at the Carolina Country Music Fest shows the eight-time Grammy winner appearing to lose her balance while descending a short flight of stairs at the rear of the stage, which had been pummeled in a sudden downpour.
The tumble ― which took place moments after Underwood had finished performing her 2006 smash, “Before He Cheats” ― did not go unnoticed by audience members. In a clip obtained by TMZ, several fans can be heard proclaiming: “She fell!”
Watch TMZ’s footage of Underwood’s Myrtle Beach performance below.
On Monday, Underwood appeared to allude to the slip while sharing photos and a short video of her rain-soaked show on social media.
“Well, last night sure was fun! And though the ending was quite unexpected, it made for a night we’ll never forget!” she wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
She reiterated that sentiment on Instagram, noting: “We won’t let a little rain stop us! We won’t let a massive downpour stop us, either!”
The moment brought to mind Underwood’s more serious accident seven years ago. In 2017, she “missed a step” outside her home in Nashville, Tennessee, while walking her dogs, requiring surgery and more than 40 stitches after she suffered a broken wrist and numerous cuts to her face.
“I was taking the dogs out to go pee one last time, and I just — I tripped,” she recalled on iHeart Radio’s “The Bobby Bones Show” in 2018. “There was one step, and I didn’t let go of the leashes! Priorities! So that’s why my left hand’s fine.”
She added: “If I had fallen anywhere else, I would have been perfectly fine. But it was one step that messed everything up.”
Underwood is slated to return to the concert stage on June 24 in Canandaigua, New York. She resumes her acclaimed residency in Las Vegas in August.
