Kathie Lee Gifford ‘went tumbling down stairs’ after hip surgery as she resurfaces for first time since pelvis fracture

EX-TODAY host Kathie Lee Gifford has resurfaced for the first time since her hip surgery.

Kathie Lee , 70, revealed that she “tumbled down the stairs” after her recovery, which landed her in the hospital.

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She appeared on Today on Tuesday to talk about her book and her recent surgery .

Kathie Lee said that she had a hip replacement in early July that she needed because her hips were “down to the nubs.”

As she recovered, Kathie Lee said that she was “running down the stairs” in her Tennessee home because her friend was locked out of her house.

“It was 100 degrees at the time and I live in a four-story house.”

“So, I went too fast, in stupid shoes and I went tumbling,” she shared.

Kathie Lee had been walking with a walker during that time.

She soon realized that she wasn’t in any pain, despite fracturing her pelvis, but was taken to the hospital and was in there for one week to heal.

“My pelvis was cracked in the front and the back,” Kathie Lee revealed.

‘COMPLETELY HEALED’

Kathie Lee said that she wasn’t taking any painkillers at the time, so she was confused when she miraculously wasn’t in any pain

The injury only happened a few weeks ago as she said she called her doctor about two weeks after being rushed to the hospital and was shocked there was no pain at that time.

However, Kathie Lee went to a follow-up appointment last Thursday to get an X-ray.

The doctor told her that she was completely healed after showing her the X-ray.

“You are healed. It is a miracle,” he told her.

BRUTAL MOMENT

Kathie Lee revealed what she did the day before her fall that weakened her.

“It didn’t take much, because I was weak in that spot,” Kathie Lee told People .

“And the next thing you know, 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. But anyway, here I am,” she said.

Kathie Lee said she “weakened herself” after moving 300 books alone the day prior.

She was doing a book signing for her book, Herod and Mary, which was released in July.

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