Forty-eight hours after hosting the 2017 CMA Awards in front of millions, Carrie Underwood stepped outside her Nashville home in the dark to walk her dogs and missed a step. The fall on November 10, 2017 broke her right wrist and tore a deep cut near her mouth. Surgeons repaired her wrist with metal plates and screws that night and closed the facial wound with 40 to 50 stitches. For a singer whose voice and face lived under constant cameras, the injury threatened both her career and her confidence.
Her husband, former NHL player Mike Fisher, was out of town when the call came from Nashville. He canceled his plans, caught an overnight flight home, and reached her hospital bedside as she woke...
