Amy Grant had accidental face-lift, learned how to sing again after scary bike accident

She’s quite the lucky one.

Amy Grant may be back on tour now, but the singer revealed that she still suffers from long-lasting effects from when she was involved in a horrific bike accident near her Nashville, Tennessee home in 2022.

“I still have issues with my short-term memory. My balance is still weird,” Grant, 63, told E! News on Tuesday. “I made a joke about it last night. You know, sometimes I walk around like I’m drunk, and I just have to laugh about all of it.”

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“I can’t remember what I can’t remember,” the country star told the outlet. “I don’t know if I’ll get back on a bike. There’s so many great sports to enjoy and so . . . who knows.”

According to the “Breath of Heaven” songstress, she was forced to relearn how to sing when she developed a cyst in her throat after the accident.

“I had this five-hour surgery and they took it out. I had to learn to sing again,” Grant said. “I just felt like an old beat-up car that went in and got a paint job.”

Grant stated that it was a “gift” to still be able to perform.

In March 2023, the singer sat down with Craig Melvin on the “Today” show, where she revealed that she wasn’t aware that anything was wrong with her voice until she started working with a vocal coach six months after her injuries.

“[I was] working with a vocalist, and she said, ‘What is happening in your throat? Lean your head back,’ ” Grant told Melvin, 44, during the interview.

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“And I said, ‘I know. It’s like I’ve got an Adam’s apple that keeps getting bigger.’ Unbeknownst to me, I’d had a thyroglossal duct cyst,” she said.

According to the Cleveland Clinic, a thyroglossal duct cyst “are rare cysts in your throat that are present at birth” that are usually benign. “Cysts are usually found and treated while people are age 10 and younger” and can usually hinder a person’s ability to eat, drink and even sing.

The site also stated that the cysts are rarely found in adults, but if they are, they can usually be removed through surgery and will not come back.

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Grant joked that she received an accidental face-lift when she went into surgery to remove the cyst.

“I said, ‘Dear God, no, I actually have to be on stage in X number of weeks,’ ” she replied to her doctors when they asked if she wanted one after the procedure.

Despite declining the service, Grant said her “neck was a little tighter” when she woke up.

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Since removing the growth, Grant has been improving steadily.

“I feel fantastic,” the singer said. “I mean, really from 2020 on, I feel like I had to . . . if I were a car, I’ve made a lotta trips to the shop.”

“And I feel like I’m emerging. I went, ‘Oh man, I feel like a classic now.’ And actually sort of re-revved up in a really beautiful way.”

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A rep for Grant told Page Six that she had been wearing a helmet at the time of the crash and was in stable condition when she arrived at Vanderbilt hospital, where she decided to spend the night out of an abundance of caution.

The singer, who is married to fellow country singer Vince Gill, 66, is no stranger to complex surgeries. She underwent open-heart surgery in June 2020 after receiving news that she had a rare heart condition called a partial anomalous pulmonary venous return.

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Taking to Instagram, the singer later showed off her scar from her surgery at the time, while the coronavirus pandemic was underway.

“My recovery has honestly felt miraculous,” Grant wrote. “And so I want to say thank you to each person who said a prayer for me. Prayer changes everything. Let’s keep those prayers going for our country and lets turn all the brokenness into love and seeing each other. I love you.”