Amy Grant opens up about recovering from horrific bike accident: ‘I feel like I’m emerging’

Amy Grant was down, but definitely not out.The six-time Grammy Award winner is making new music after she was involved in a serious bike accident near her Nashville home last summer that left her unconscious for 10 minutes and caused a traumatic brain injury and memory loss.

“I wrote this long book. It was a spiral notebook. And I was just writing to remember, writing — making sure I could remember everybody’s name in my family, which I couldn’t, at first,” she told TODAY’s Craig Melvin in an interview that aired March 1.

Grant, 62, says she even forgot some of the lyrics to her songs.

“So the first night of the Christmas tour, which is the first time back on tour, teleprompter, and I was on heels,” she said. “I was, like, holding onto the piano. Before the show I was like, ‘I’m so scared. I’m so scared.’ And I work with so many great singers, and they’re like, ‘We got you, we got you.’”

Grant, who is married to fellow singer Vince Gill, has been told it may take as a long as 18 months to fully recover from the cognitive issues she has. The accident is also one of many medical matters she’s had to address in recent years. She underwent heart surgery in 2020 and had a cyst removed from her throat in January.