--- title: Carrie Underwood Posted Update on How She’s Doing Post Fall description: "American Idol" winner Carrie Underwood says she's "healing pretty nicely" after her 40 face stitches and has a new single, "Cry Pretty." canonical: https://time.com/5234730/carrie-underwood-face-injury-update/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-04-10T16:36:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:47:17.963Z og:title: Carrie Underwood Penned a Letter to Fans on How She’s Doing Since Her Fall og:description: The 'American Idol' winner has a new single out this week and album on the way og:url: https://time.com/5234730/carrie-underwood-face-injury-update/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf99540d62abb961c/69892d3686f68e2fdb6e8d51/carrie-underwood-cmas.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: The 51st Annual CMA Awards - Carrie Underwood og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Carrie Underwood Penned a Letter to Fans on How She’s Doing Since Her Fall twitter:description: The 'American Idol' winner has a new single out this week and album on the way twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf99540d62abb961c/69892d3686f68e2fdb6e8d51/carrie-underwood-cmas.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Carrie Underwood Penned a Letter to Fans on How She’s Doing Since Her Fall > Sponsored content. 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Carrie Underwood is still healing from injuries she suffered after falling on the steps of her house in November_  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Apr 10, 2018 4:36 PM UTC  Carrie Underwood attends the 51st annual CMA Awards at the Bridgestone Arena on November 8, 2017 in Nashville, Tennessee. Carrie Underwood attends the 51st annual CMA Awards at the Bridgestone Arena on November 8, 2017 in Nashville, Tennessee. Taylor Hill—FilmMagic  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Apr 10, 2018 4:36 PM UTC It’s been a rollercoaster of a past year for 2005 _American Idol_ winner [Carrie Underwood](http://time.com/4740246/carrie-underwood-balances-work-motherhood/): In November, the 34-year-old [took a tumble](http://time.com/5084022/carrie-underwood-face-stitches/) that required 40 to 50 stitches for a face injury and broke her wrist. On Tuesday, she shared an [update on her website](https://www.carrieunderwood.fm/news/news/letter-from-carrie-about-new-music), announcing that she’s “healing pretty nicely” — and that she has a new single and album on the way. “My wrist is almost back to normal, about 90% there,” she wrote in her letter to fans. “And my face has been healing pretty nicely as well. I definitely feel more like myself than I have in a while.” She added that her period of “forced relaxation” has had the silver lining of giving her time to spend with her son Isaiah and her hockey player husband, [Mike Fisher](http://time.com/3730890/carrie-underwood-mike-fisher-newborn-son/), who recently came out of retirement to play for the Nashville Predators. But the real news is that she has new music on the way. The first single, “Cry Pretty,” will be out April 11, and was co-written with Hillary Lindsey, Liz Rose, and Lori McKenna — and she’ll be performing it live during the Academy of Country Music Awards, which will be held [on April 15](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/watch-2018-academy-country-music-awards-acm-live-stream-tv-date-time-sunday/) in Las Vegas. As for the album? Although there were no timeline details, she did say that she has co-produced it, a first for her, with collaborator David Garcia. Underwood’s last album was 2015’s platinum [_Storyteller_](http://time.com/4082958/carrie-underwood-returns-to-her-roots-on-storyteller/), which featured country chart hits “Dirty Laundry” and “Church Bells.” Her latest song, “The Champion,” has become a sporting event anthem since she released it with Ludacris earlier in 2018. > [](https://twitter.com/carrieunderwood/status/983699126117457921) ## Transcript Guys Carrie Underwood is opening up about the severity of her fall in November. The singer, who broke her wrist in the accident, revealed on Sunday that she is still healing because the incident also caused her severe cuts to her face. In a post to her fan club members, Underwood said, quote, there's also another part of the story that I haven't been ready to talk about since I have still been living it and there has been much uncertainty as to how things will end up. It's crazy how a freak random accident can change your life. She went on to say in addition to breaking my wrist, I somehow managed to injure my face as well. I'll spare you the gruesome details but when I came out of surgery the night of my fall, the doctor told my husband Mike that he had to put between 40 and 50 stitches in. And just seven weeks after the fall, the country singer said she's on the mend but quote, not quite looking the same. She wrote, I honestly don't know how things are going to end up but I do know this, I'm grateful, I'm grateful that it wasn't much much worse and I'm grateful for the people in my life that have been there every step of the way. Of curse Carrie is feeling optimistic for the new year she says quote, I'm determined to make 2018 amazing and I want to share things with you along the way and when I'm ready to get in front of a camera I want you all to understand why I might look a bit different. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5234730/carrie-underwood-face-injury-update/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5234730/carrie-underwood-face-injury-update/"},"headline":"Carrie Underwood Penned a Letter to Fans on How She’s Doing Since Her Fall","datePublished":"2018-04-10T16:36:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:47:17.963Z","description":"Her new single \"Cry Pretty\" will be out this week","url":"https://time.com/5234730/carrie-underwood-face-injury-update/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Music","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf99540d62abb961c/69892d3686f68e2fdb6e8d51/carrie-underwood-cmas.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf99540d62abb961c/69892d3686f68e2fdb6e8d51/carrie-underwood-cmas.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The 51st Annual CMA Awards - Carrie Underwood","caption":"The 51st Annual CMA Awards - Carrie Underwood","creditText":"Taylor Hill—FilmMagic","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5234730/carrie-underwood-face-injury-update/","name":"Carrie Underwood Penned a Letter to Fans on How She’s Doing Since Her Fall"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Carrie Underwood Reveals She Needed Over 40 Stitches in Her Face After November Fall","description":"Carrie Underwood is still healing from injuries she suffered after falling on the steps of her house in November","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/MrsVxc5F/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2018-01-02T16:07:27.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/MrsVxc5F.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/5234730/carrie-underwood-face-injury-update/","duration":"PT1M8S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/5234730/carrie-underwood-face-injury-update/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```