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Amy Grant says she was depressed, lost 'superpower' after traumatic bike accident
View Date:2024-12-23 15:40:06
Amy Grant is reflecting on the emotional toll her traumatic bike accident caused.
The Christian singer opened up in an interview with AARP about her recovery two years after the incident and how it led to a bout of depression.
Grant said she didn't leave her house for a month and avoided seeing "any screens" after the accident.
"I've had to be very patient with myself," Grant, 63, told the outlet. "I have had a lot of good, hard cries. And I went through depression. But everybody is recovering from something. That's life. If nothing else, we recover every day from the shock of what it means to age."
Grant told AARP that she found it difficult to lose her "superpower," her impeccable memory, as a result.
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"Now I can't trust my memory. But there are hidden gifts in everything," she said.
She added that the incident, in addition to an open-heart surgery during the pandemic, led her to "be more intentional about" her health by making certain changes, including drinking nonalcoholic beer.
"Our mindsets, the stories we tell ourselves, become our realities," she said. "Find the tool kits that you need to move forward."
In July 2022, Grant was hospitalized after a serious bike accident in which she hit a pothole and was knocked unconscious near her home in Nashville, Tennessee.
Earlier this year, the singer opened up about relearning to sing after her bike accident and the discovery of a cyst in her throat. Grant told E! News in February that the trauma from the incident caused an existing cyst in her throat to become a "hypergrowth" that required surgery.
Amy Grant's bicycle accidentled to throat cyst discovery, forced her to relearn singing
"I had this five-hour surgery and they took it out. So I actually had to learn to sing again," Grant said.
She told E! that doctors offered a facelift during the surgery, which she declined. But when she woke up post-surgery, her "neck was a little tighter."
"I just felt like an old, beat-up car that went in and got a paint job and had the dents knocked out," the singer said of the surgery. "That's a gift."
The accident also caused ongoing issues, including her short-term memory and balance. "I can't remember what I can't remember," she said. "Sometimes I walk around like I'm drunk and I just have to laugh about all of it."
Contributing: Melissa Ruggieri
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