Kathie Lee Gifford Breaks Silence On How Her Nasty Fall Happened

Kathie Lee Gifford is opening up about the fall that landed her back in the hospital.

The "Live! With Regis and Kathie Lee" alum recently shared a little on her accident, revealing it was good to be home after spending a week hospitalized for a fractured pelvis.

The incident marked Kathie Lee Gifford's second hospital trip after her hip replacement surgery.

Addressing her recent hospitalization, Gifford revealed that she had pushed her body to its limits amid recovery from a hip replacement surgery. She believed her body had healed enough to continue working but discovered her weakness the hard way.

While promoting her new book, "Herod and Mary: The True Story of the Tyrant King and the Mother of the Risen Savior," Gifford overexerted herself while moving 300 copies for a signing event.

"I knew that night, when I went to sleep, I said, 'Kathie, you did too much today. You're hurting again where you haven't been hurting,'" the TV personality recalled to ET.

"I said, 'I'll sleep it off.' And so the next day, I did the signing [and] it went really, really well," Gifford continued. She attempted to commemorate her successful book signing event with a girls' day out when things went south.

The following day, when Gifford's pal arrived for their outing, the 70-year-old fell down the stairs in her excitement to open the door. "I missed a step, and I went tumbling," she recalled, adding:

"It's my own fault. I should not have been in a hurry, you know? What am I in a hurry for?"

The nasty fall broke Gifford's pelvis in two places, and she spent around a week in the hospital. She addressed her recent release positively, declaring, "I'm doing well! I'm happy to be out of the hospital."

"As lovely as all those people are to me, they really took good care of me, but there's no place like home," she continued, noting that she had to do physical therapy daily to recover from the fracture.

In her latest interview, Gifford stressed that she had learned a valuable lesson about patience and won't be rushing her healing period. "They gotta get you up and moving. You don't want your bones to atrophy," she said about her physical therapy sessions.

"It can be anywhere from three months to, you know, just a month to who knows? I just have to listen to them this time," Gifford concluded. The Blast shared that she described her fall as a "humbling experience" in a previous interview, saying:

"I am back in the hospital with a fractured pelvis, the front and the back. That's more painful than anything I went through with the hip. The pelvis is unbelievably painful."

Gifford revealed she extended her hospital stay to a week because she didn't "trust" herself. "You think you know your body, and the next thing you know, your body changes when you get older," she noted.

Before experiencing the excruciating pain of a fractured pelvis, Gifford had endured the agony of her hip replacement surgery. She described the period as "one of the most painful situations of my entire life."

"It's been really hard," she confessed, explaining that her active lifestyle negatively impacted her weakened hip. However, the 70-year-old had no regrets, proudly declaring:

"Would I change that? No, I was doing what God put me on this earth to do. Every year of it, I was doing what He called me to do."

As for the book Gifford overexerted herself to promote, "Herod and Mary: The True Story of the Tyrant King and the Mother of the Risen Savior," was inspired by a trip to Israel. Her son, Cody, also encouraged her to bring the biblical figures to life.

In 2019, The Blast reported that Gifford opened up about leaving her co-hosting job on the "Today" show and moving to a city outside Nashville. She confessed that it was challenging living alone with memories. 

She lost her husband, Frank Gifford, in August 2015, and their children Cody and Cassidy moved out of the Greenwich home years later. "That huge, beautiful memory-filled home was like a morgue to me," the 70-year-old said

"Here's the bad news — I'm a widow, an orphan, and an empty nester. The good news is, I have the freedom of a widow, an orphan, and an empty nester," Gifford claimed.

When Kathie Lee Gifford moved to Nashville for a fresh start, she probably didn't expect it to become her recovery center after two hospitalizations. Get well soon!