A drunken fall might be the oldest story in the book, but for Howie Mandel's wife, the culprit for his recent fall and hospitalization was marijuana, not alcohol.
Terry Mandel was worried people would assume she was drunk when she took a spill and cracked her head in the couple's Las Vegas hotel room, after the comedian described the incident on “Live With Kelly and Mark.” It was an assumption she apparently wanted to avoid.
“She wasn't drunk,” he clarified Tuesday on “TMZ Live.” “She's so worried that people are going to intervene…she doesn't have a problem with alcohol. I'm going to tell you the truth: she took gummies.”
After a night on the town in February, Terry got out of bed at his hotel in the middle of the night and crashed into a wall, then fell and hit his face on the paneling, tearing his forehead and breaking his wrist. cheek.
“I wake up, turn on the light, look around the bed,” Howie Mandel said on “Kelly and Mark.” “She's in the corner face down, and she didn't know she had cut her head off, but the blood was gushing out and I got scared!”
The “America's Got Talent” judge rushed to pick her up and put her back on the bed, trying to clean the blood with towels. When she asked for ice, he improvised with a cold soda can, which her wife quickly threw across the room, she said, because it was hurting her face.
It was only when his face was uncovered that the comedian realized he could “actually see his skull” through the cut in his forehead.
“I said, 'Oh my God. This is the love of my life. This is my everything. That's all I have,'” she said. “So I got scared and called the front desk and said, 'You have to call 911!'”
Terry is now stitched up, rested and recovered, much to Howie's relief. Moral of the story? Substances and wood coatings do not mix.
