American singer Amy Grant has spoken out about her recovery from a bike accident two years ago.
The Breath of Heaven singer, 63, told E! News that she still has “issues with her short term memory” and said she developed a cyst that grew fast due to the “trauma” of the accident.
After the cyst surgery, Grants, often called the The Queen of Christian Pop, said she had to “learn to sing again”.
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“I still have issues with my short term memory. My balance is still weird,” she said.
“I made a joke about it last night. You know, sometimes I walk around like I’m drunk and I just have to laugh about all of it.”
She added: “I can’t remember what I can’t remember. I don’t know if I’ll get back on a bike. There’s so many great sports to enjoy and so… who knows.”
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Grant said her cyst went into “hypergrowth” and she had a five-hour surgery to take it out.
“Unbeknownst to me, I actually had a cyst growing in my throat and because of the trauma of the bike wreck, it went into hyper growth,” she explained.
“I had this five-hour surgery and they took it out. I had to learn to sing again.
“I just felt like an old beat-up car that went in and got a paint job.”
Two years ago, Grant was hospitalised following the bike accident.
She was cycling with a friend in Nashville, Tennessee when she fell off her bicycle and suffered cuts and abrasions.
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Grant, who was wearing a helmet at the time of the accident, was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where she was treated for her injuries.
A rep for the American singer told People at the time that Grant was in a stable condition, and she stayed overnight at the hospital as a precaution.
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The scary accident came two years after Grant underwent open-heart surgery to correct a heart defect known as PAPVR (partial anomalous pulmonary venous return) – a rare condition she was born with but only just discovered during a routine check-up.
“I think women tend to put their health on the back burner,” she told Good Morning America when asked about her 2020 operation and health journey.
“It’s more like, ‘Oh my children, my grandchildren, my work, my spouse.’ All of those things and we need the gift of each other. So even if you go, ‘Oh, I got nothing on the radar,’ just get somebody else to check it out.”