Amy Grant Struggles to Remember Her Lyrics 6 Months After Head Injury

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Amy Grant is keeping fans updated connected her healing journey. 

Back successful July, the vocalist was thrown from her motorcycle erstwhile she hit a pothole successful Nashville. Though she was concisely hospitalized for a concussion, the 62-year-old yet had to cancel respective concerts and was incapable to instrumentality to the signifier until November. 

Looking back, "I don't retrieve the opening of it," Grant exclusively told E! astir her betterment process portion attending Live astatine the Music Center: Concert Celebrating Jerry Moss in Los Angeles Jan. 14, aboriginal adding, "My representation is inactive coming back, and the stamina, they accidental 12-18 months aft an wounded similar that."

Though she remains positive—"Six months in, truthful I consciousness truly good! I expect conscionable getting better"—she said she inactive struggles to retrieve her opus lyrics.

"So far, close now, I usage a teleprompter," Grant said up of her show astatine the Los Angeles event. "There's 1 tonight. I'm truthful glad. I utilized a teleprompter connected the Christmas Tour." 

And she isn't acrophobic to beryllium vocal astir her lapse successful memory.

"Honestly, I can't retrieve what I don't remember," the six-time Grammy winner explained. "So, I was astatine meal the different nighttime with a precocious schoolhouse friend. We utilized to walk the nighttime astatine each other's houses. I said, 'I'm embarrassed to inquire you, are you and your hubby inactive together?' She said that Douglas died 7 years ago, and it was similar I had conscionable heard it for the archetypal time!"

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Still, Grant looks for the metallic lining. "The encephalon is each astir reconnecting each those things," she told E!. "But it's besides been a spot of a blessing. Like, I saw idiosyncratic astatine the airport, and they said, 'Hey it's bully to spot you!' I said, 'Call maine crazy. You're going to person to archer maine your name!' It was idiosyncratic I knew. Everyone would similar this excuse! Everyone should bash this. It makes beingness easier to conscionable accidental the information of what is." 

- Reporting by Amanda Champagne-Meadows

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