Amy Grant Shares How Husband Helped Her With Brain Injury

Amy Grant opened up about leaning on husband Vince Gill for support after suffering a traumatic brain injury.

Grant, 65, candidly spoke about healing from her 2022 brain 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 remember saying to Vince, ‘What if this is all I get back? What if this is it?’” she recalled.

“Because to me, it’s like the world is in a conversation and I am down the hall and in a back bedroom,” she continued. “My response time, I love people making me laugh, I love delivering a great one-liner, but that doesn’t happen when you’re three steps behind the room.”

Grant, who suffered her injury after falling off a bicycle, recalled Gill, 69, telling her, “Amy, life happens to everyone one of us every day. A virtuoso musician could have a stroke and never be able to pick up their instrument again. All you do is live the life that you get. You just take the hand you’re dealt that day and live the life that you get.”

The singer then started writing songs again and performing on tour, but had mixed feelings about it. She shared that she looks into the audience and sees fans with signs of aging and wondered if she’s “doing all of us a disservice by not writing about what life feels like now.”

“I felt some creative imitations,” she added. “I felt like I was rusty songwriting in a way. I would either finish a lyric or get started on it. I was a little freer reaching out to people I had never worked with, saying, ‘Hey, I’ve got this lyric, any chance you want to help me with the music?’ Because it was hard for me to wrap my arms around the music part of it.”

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In February 2024, Grant opened up about the aftermath of the accident, which left her unconscious for 10 minutes, telling E! News that she still had “issues with [her] short-term memory.”

“My balance is still weird,” she noted. “You know, sometimes I walk around like I’m drunk, and you just have to laugh about all of it,” she says. “I can’t remember what I can’t remember.” She also shared that she had to “learn how to sin again.”