Gretchen Wilson Left Wheelchair-Bound for Several Months After Shattering Leg at a Wedding: 'It Was Ugly'

Gretchen Wilson is opening up astir a caller wounded that near her wheelchair bound for months.

During an quality connected Taste of Country Nights pinch Evan Paul, nan "Redneck Woman" vocalist said astir really she "shattered" her limb astatine a wedding.

Wilson, 51, suffered nan wounded while dancing pinch a 6-year-old. "You gotta watch them younger men, they'll get ya each time," she joked astir her creation partner.

The Grammy victor said that astatine nan wedding, she was doing "Ring Around nan Rosie" erstwhile it happened. "We were astatine a wedding reception and it was connected nan beach, truthful they had thrown 1 of those Astroturf carpeting things complete nan sand," she recalled.

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Wilson added that during nan circle dance, she was "doing nan rotation astatine 100mph" and her ankle deed 1 of nan pockets connected nan Astroturf laid out. "It was ugly."

"You seen those videos online pinch nan ft hanging nan incorrect way? It was 1 of those. Once I went down, I did not get backmost up." The wounded was a "setback" for her, leaving her successful a wheelchair for months.

At nan extremity of her treatment period, Wilson was contacted for a show that would get her backmost connected her feet: The Masked Singer. "All nan choreography, it was stressful, but it was bully for me. It was difficult work. It was really bully for maine and I proved a batch to myself," she said.

The state prima was connected nan 13th play of Fox's reality singing title series and won arsenic Pearl. She told PEOPLE that she wanted different character, Andy Grammer arsenic Boogie Woogie, to win.

“I was perfectly affirmative that Boogie won," she said of nan runner-up.

"I thought he was conscionable nan astir astonishing singer. In my head, he had won it weeks before. I was truthful stunned because I had myself fresh to perceive that I was 2nd place. I was truthful fresh for it, I had already decided that that's what it should beryllium successful my head."

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Wilson besides said astir what winning nan Golden Mask trophy meant to her. "I consciousness for illustration it's benignant of a comeback moment," she said of nan victory.

"I'm fresh to return connected anything."