Amy Grant opened up about relying on her husband Vince Gill for support after suffering a traumatic brain injury.
Grant, 65, spoke candidly about her recovery from the 2022 injury during a Thursday, April 30, episode of the “Wild Card With Rachel Martin” podcast. “I just remember in the fall of 2022, when my world was very quiet, I said to Vince, ‘What if this is all I get back? What if this is it?’” she recalled.
“To me, it’s like the world is in a conversation and I am down the hall in a back bedroom,” she continued. “My response time is slow—I love making people laugh, but that doesn’t happen when you’re three steps behind.”
Grant suffered the injury after falling off a bicycle. She recalled Gill, 69, telling her, “Amy, life happens to everyone every day. A virtuoso musician could have a stroke and never play again. You just live the life you get—take the hand you’re dealt and live it.”
“I felt creative limitations,” she added. “I was rusty at songwriting. I would finish a lyric or start one, and I was freer about asking others for help with music because it was hard for me to handle that part.”
In February 2024, Grant told E! News she still had “issues with short-term memory” after the accident, which left her unconscious for 10 minutes. “My balance is still weird—sometimes I walk like I’m drunk, and you just have to laugh,” she said. “I can’t remember what I can’t remember.” She also noted she had to “learn how to sin again.”