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Tuesday, January 2, 2018
Carrie Underwood Got 50 Stitches in Her Face! OUCH!
Back in November, during a tribute to the victims of last year’s horrific Las Vegas shooting, Carrie Underwood broke down on stage.
About a week later, meanwhile, the former American Idol champion announced she had broken her wrist in a fall and needed to undergo surgery for the injury.
Tweeted Underwood at the time:
“I just wanted let everyone know that I’m doing great. Had surgery on my wrist yesterday & all went well…even though I’ll be setting off airport metal detectors from now on…
“I’m so thankful for the doctors, nurses, family & friends who’ve been taking such great care of me.”
Over the weekend, however, the beloved singer penned a lengthy blog post on her official fansite that opened up on further detail about this injury, detailing how the accident affected another important body part as well:
Her face.
“There is 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,” the artist wrote in this New Year’s Eve post, which we’ve shared below.
“It’s crazy how a freak random accident can change your life. In addition to breaking my wrist, I somehow managed to injure my face as well.”
Underwood went on to say she would spare supporters the “gruesome details” of what transpired and what had to be done in respond – but added that the doctor said he had put “between 40-50 stitches in.”
Yikes, right?!?
“Now, here we are 7 weeks later and, even though I’ve had the best people helping me, I’m still healing and not quite looking the same,” Underwood continued in her very candid latter, admitting:
“I honestly don’t know how things are going to end up …”
Underwood, whose last studio album was released in 2015, said she’s working on fresh material.
She’s excited about the music, but apprehensive about her appearance.
“When I am ready to get in front of a camera, I want you all to understand why I might look a bit different,” she said.
“I’m hoping that, by then, the differences are minimal, but, again, I just don’t know how it’s all going to end up.”
The only social media photo Underwood has shared of herself since the accident is posted at the outset of this article, as it features the superstar in a full-on face scarf.
Days after co-hosting the Country Music Awards in November, she fell down steps outside her Tennessee house, breaking her wrist and prompting her to cancel an appearance at a fundraising concert for hurricane victims and those affected by the Las Vegas shooting.
We admire her honesty in this blog post, don’t you?
It’s a reminder that celebrities are very much normal people, concerned about their appearances and about how they’ll be received by others when simply walking down the street.
We’ve always adored Underwood for how she’s managed to keep it real in the face of enormous success.
And no matter how her face looks, Underwood will always have an amazing body.
We’re just kidding. (Not entirely, of course, she does have an amazing body.)
It’s what’s on the inside that counts, not the outside, and Carrie has made it clear she has a beautiful inside in every way possible.
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Logan Paul Apologizes Again, Gets Defended By Chrissy Teigen
If you’ve been anywhere near social media today, then you’re probably aware that Logan Paul apologized in the most half-assed fashion imaginable after posting a video that seemed to have no purpose other than traumatizing his mostly teenage audience.
Not surprisingly, Paul decided (no doubt after a lengthy consultation with his management team) to issue a second mea culpa.
This time around, he went with less of a “self-satisfied douche” tone, and more of a “oh, sh-t, I put a dead body on YouTube! My career might really be over, so I’m genuinely contrite!” vibe.
“I have made a severe and continuous lapse in my judgment, and I don’t expect to be forgiven. I’m simply here to apologize,” Paul told the camera in a brief video clip posted to his Twitter page.
“I should’ve never posted the video. I should’ve put the cameras down and stopped recording what we were going through. There’s a lot of things I should’ve done differently, but I didn’t and for that, from the bottom of my heart, I am sorry.”
Many have taken issue with the fact that Paul is still acting like he recorded an impromptu video and then hit “send,” when in reality, he went to a part of the world famous as a site of numerous suicides, found exactly what he was looking for, and then edited the incident into a video intended both to shock and to boost his public profile.
Paul has found an unlikely defender in Chrissy Teigen, who tweeted a reluctant message of empathy for the controversial YouTube star.
“Re: Logan Paul, something I always think about is when people make…ethical mistakes, as in, not-illegal, should we really be trying I ruin their lives and end their careers or accept the apology, personally make a choice to stop watching, and move on,” she wrote.
“I’m not saying what he did wasn’t sick and stupid and his videos aren’t or haven’t been stupid, I’m saying…a lot of you don’t know what it’s like to have a campaign to end your entire being.”
At this point, Chrissy might be more famous as a social media firebrand than as a model, so when it comes to bearing the brunt of public outrage, she knows whereof she speaks.
But it’s important to point out that none of the sane people who have been involved in this debate are calling for Logan to be publicly executed.
The consensus seems to be that he should simply go away for a while, as he’s proven that he’s not the kind of person who should be generating content for impressionable young people.
In his second apology, Paul stated that he doesn’t “expect to be forgiven,” but that’s clearly not the case.
He wants this to be over as quickly as possible so that he can continue making obscene amounts of money with cruel and problematic “prank” videos.
No PR magic is going to make the public forget that Paul mocked a suicide victim in front of an audience of millions.
Fellow YouTube star Nate Garner tweeted that Paul should donate his 2018 YouTube revenue to suicide prevention charities.
That’s a start, but we’d prefer that Paul donate his 2017 revenues, take 2018 off entirely, and come back when he learns the difference between comedy and exploitative cruelty.
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