She had an accident during “The Voice”, but she continued to perform.  She landed on the operating table

She had an accident during “The Voice”, but she continued to perform. She landed on the operating table

Performing live on TV is nerve-wracking, especially when you’re singing and fighting to look your best. In such conditions, it is easy for a moment of inattention and an accident. In the case of a participant in the American edition of “The Voice”, a seemingly minor fall turned out to be so serious that the singer could not move her arms at first, and then she needed surgery and long-term rehabilitation.

The accident on the vision occurred during the 21st season of the American “The Voice”. Coach Blake Shelton’s team was just finishing a joint performance, during which they sang the song “Sugar Pie Honey Bunch”. It was then that one of the participants had a painful capsizing. Wendy Moten didn’t notice the floor monitor behind her. She tripped over it and tried to break the fall with her hands. The hosts and the people present in the studio froze for a moment.

The participant of “The Voice” had an accident on stage

Moten needed help to get off stage. Moments later, she appeared on the air with host Carson Daly and told the viewers that “she’s a little battered”, but she’s probably fine. It was only later that it became known how serious the injuries were to the participant of the program, who celebrated her 57th birthday the day before the accident.

Wendy was rushed to the hospital that same evening. There, it turned out that she had a fracture in her right elbow and a piece of bone in her left hand broke off, and her wrist was also badly damaged. The singer was in shock – she had never had a fracture before. “I couldn’t use my hands at all. It was a unique situation,” Moten later told the magazine

Despite the accident, Wendy stayed on the show for the next three weeks – coaches praised her vocal performances and did not hide that they were impressed by how focused she was on music, although just appearing on stage is a breakneck task for her due to serious injuries. “It’s amazing, you show up here as if nothing had happened, and you sing in such a poignant way that it touches the heart” – they emphasized.

Wendny made it to the finals where she eventually placed second. Then she went home, and there the doctors sent her to the operating table: “They put a titanium plate in my elbow so that the hand could heal,” Moten explained. The breakdowns also had a long-term effect on her health – her fingers and elbow were twisted for almost a year, which required regular physiotherapy. Fortunately, after nearly 10 months of exercise, she managed to recover.

Source: Gazeta

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