It’s been more than five months since singer Carrie Underwood suffered a fall that resulted in a broken wrist and severe facial injuries requiring more than 40 stitches. Since that time, she has remained out of the public eye, but she will be making her triumphant return in a big way on Sunday as she is scheduled to perform live at the Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas.
Ahead of her performance, Carrie has been sharing the first photos of her face after the accident. Earlier this month she posted a picture rehearsing on stage, and on Friday she shared the photo at the top of this post. “Getting ready for the weekend…” she captioned the picture, adding the hash tags #CryPretty and #ACMawards.
Carrie also took to her website to share an update on how her wrist and face are healing:
First off, physically, I’m doing pretty darn good these days! My wrist is almost back to normal, about 90% there…and the docs say that last 10% will come in time. And my face has been healing pretty nicely as well. I definitely feel more like myself than I have in a while. One of the silver linings for me in this healing process is the time I’ve gotten to spend with Mike and Isaiah. I’ve been calling it “forced relaxation.” Sometimes I think things happen in order to make us slow down. It also means I’ve been home to support my favorite hockey player coming out of retirement! I hope you’re all ready for more silly posts of me at Preds’ playoff games! One more run for the Cup! Go Preds!
Later in the post, Carrie talks about her brand new single “Cry Pretty,” which she will be performing at the ACM Awards on Sunday:
The first single is a song I love so much and can’t wait to share with you. It’s called “Cry Pretty” and I wrote it with three incredible women: Hillary Lindsey, Liz Rose, and Lori McKenna, who also write under the name Love Junkies. I joined one of their writing sessions last year to see if we could come up with some magic…and we did! The title refers to when emotions take over and you just can’t hold them back. It really speaks to a lot of things that have happened in the past year and I hope when you hear it, you can relate those feelings to those times in your life. It’s emotional. It’s real. And it ROCKS! It comes out TOMORROW at 6am ET, and I’m so excited I’ll be performing it live on the ACM Awards this weekend, so I hope you’ll all tune in to see it!
You can see Carrie’s performance by tuning in to the Academy of Country Music Awards airing Sunday night at 8/7c on CBS. Until then, be sure to familiarize yourself with her powerful new song “Cry Pretty!” Here’s the lyric video:
