Kathie Lee Gifford has been hospitalized after falling and fracturing her pelvis in two places.
The “Live With Regis and Kathie Lee” alum told People on Tuesday that she tripped and fell after her recent hip replacement surgery and was hospitalized for more than a week for physical therapy.
Gifford, 70, was injured while running for the door and “it didn't take much effort because I was weak in that spot.”
“The next thing I knew I was back in the hospital with a broken pelvis, both front and back. That’s more painful than anything I went through with my hip. My pelvis hurts incredibly,” she told the outlet.
The television personality and author said she weakened her body the day before the fall by moving more than 300 books by herself at a book signing in Nashville.
“You think you know your body, and then all of a sudden you realize that your body changes as you get older,” she said. “And as much as I don’t want to think about it, I do.”
She added: “The Lord is telling me it’s time to slow down. I’ve been running all my life. The Lord is telling me, ‘You’ve planted a bunch of roses. Try to smell them.’”
The former “Today” show co-host, who left the morning show in 2019, returned to Studio 1A earlier this month to promote “Herod and Mary,” the first book she co-authored in the biblical series “Ancient Evil, Living Hope.”
“I have spent the last fifteen years of my life fascinated and completely enthralled by this story and it is my great honor to bring it to you alongside my friend and co-author, the brilliant Dr. Bryan Litfin,” the Daytime Emmy Award winner wrote on Instagram last month.
Representatives for Gifford did not immediately respond to The Times' requests for comment Wednesday.
