LeAnn Rimes has shared an embarrassing story of her teeth falling out in the middle of a recent show.
The country singer, best known for her ‘90s hits ‘How Do I Live?’ and ‘Can’t Fight The Moonlight’, posted a video on her Instagram in which she shared the story of what happened during a performance at the Skagit Casino Resort in Washington state last week (June 21).
“OK, we’re going to do a little story time about how the show must go on,” she began. “This is the most epic example of how the show must go on.”
She went on to explain that she was halfway through a rendition of her 1996 song ‘One Way Ticket’ when she suddenly “felt something pop” in her mouth.
“If you’ve been around, you know I’ve had a lot of dental surgeries and I have a bridge in the front, and it fell out in the middle of my song last night,” she continued.
She explained that she panicked and ran to the side of the stage, where she “popped it back in and then just went on singing.” Far from resolving the situation, however, she said she in fact spent the rest of the show having to push her teeth back in after “every couple of lines.”
“There wasn’t a fucking thing I could do about it except either walk off or just hold my teeth in and sing, so I just ran with it. The show can go on, even in the midst of sheer, utter embarrassment. You just gotta be real with people.”
“I don’t usually have firsts in my career, but that was a first and hopefully a last,” she joked, before warning the front rows of future shows to “get ready”, adding: “If you catch them, please return them”.
As well as her music career, Rimes also had a memorable cameo in the cult classic film Coyote Ugly in 2000, and she has spoken in recent years about how filming a “sexual song” for the film’s soundtrack made her “uncomfortable”.
“I remember recording it and I was feeling uncomfortable recording it because I was so young,” she said. “I’m obviously not uncomfortable singing it now – so there’s like a different sensuality that comes out with the song that definitely was not there when I was 17.”
