{"id":88786,"date":"2026-05-02T04:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T04:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/amy-grant-shares-how-husband-helped-her-with-brain-injury\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T04:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T04:20:11","slug":"amy-grant-shares-how-husband-helped-her-with-brain-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/amy-grant-shares-how-husband-helped-her-with-brain-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Grant Shares How Husband Helped Her With Brain Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Amy Grant<\/strong> opened up about leaning on husband<strong> Vince Gill<\/strong> for support after suffering a traumatic brain injury.<\/p>\n<p>Grant, 65, candidly spoke about healing from her 2022 brain injury during a Thursday, April 30, episode of the \u201cWild Card With Rachel Martin\u201d podcast. \u201cI just remember in the fall of 2022, when my world was very quiet, I remember saying to Vince, \u2018What if this is all I get back? What if this is it?\u2019\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause to me, it\u2019s like the world is in a conversation and I am down the hall and in a back bedroom,\u201d she continued. \u201cMy response time, I love people making me laugh, I love delivering a great one-liner, but that doesn\u2019t happen when you\u2019re three steps behind the room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grant, who suffered her injury after falling off a bicycle, recalled Gill, 69, telling her, \u201cAmy, 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\u2019re dealt that day and live the life that you get.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Vince-Gill-and-Amy-Grant-on-Secret-to-Long-Marriage.jpg?crop=0px%2C0px%2C1586px%2C897px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Vince Gill and Amy Grant on Secret to Long Marriage\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-fallback-img=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Vince-Gill-and-Amy-Grant-on-Secret-to-Long-Marriage.jpg?quality=70&amp;strip=all\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n<p>    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Vince Gill and Amy Grant Share Advice For a Long and Happy Marriage<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tVince Gill and Amy Grant have some advice on how to have a long and happy marriage like theirs. \u201cA lot of kindness,\u201d the Eagles member, 67, exclusively told Us Weekly of what makes a strong relationship while on the red carpet for the Grand Ole Opry 100 Year Celebration on Wednesday, March 19. \u201cYou [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>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\u2019s \u201cdoing all of us a disservice by not writing about what life feels like now.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI felt some creative imitations,\u201d she added. \u201cI 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, \u2018Hey, I\u2019ve got this lyric, any chance you want to help me with the music?\u2019 Because it was hard for me to wrap my arms around the music part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption \">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:150%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large credit-added wp-image-4325191\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2258947240.jpeg?w=1000&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" alt=\"Amy Grant Shares How Husband Helped Her With Brain Injury\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2258947240.jpeg?w=100&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 100w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2258947240.jpeg?w=200&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2258947240.jpeg?w=300&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2258947240.jpeg?w=400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2258947240.jpeg?w=500&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 500w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2258947240.jpeg?w=600&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2258947240.jpeg?w=700&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 700w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2258947240.jpeg?w=800&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2258947240.jpeg?w=900&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2258947240.jpeg?w=1000&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2258947240.jpeg?w=1200&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 6em), (max-width: 1000px) 80vw, 1000px\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"credit\">Michael Loccisano\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In February 2024, Grant opened up about the aftermath of the accident, which left her unconscious for 10 minutes, telling<em> E! News<\/em> that she still had \u201cissues with [her] short-term memory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy balance is still weird,\u201d she noted. \u201cYou know, sometimes I walk around like I\u2019m drunk, and you just have to laugh about all of it,\u201d she says. \u201cI can\u2019t remember what I can\u2019t remember.\u201d She also shared that she had to \u201clearn how to sin again.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u201cWild Card With Rachel Martin\u201d podcast. \u201cI just remember in the fall of 2022, when my world was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_daextam_enable_autolinks":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-trends-and-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-1446803084.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}