Carrie Underwood Confesses Facial Injury Made Singing ‘Physically Impossible’

In an interview with Vulture, Carrie, 35, was asked about whether her injury had any effect on her voice. “I felt like the differences were more in my head than they were in anybody else’s that would listen to the things I was doing,” she said.

But the injury held her back. “I had wanted to be in the studio sooner than I was, actually recording these songs, but I had stitches inside my mouth, outside my mouth. It was physically impossible.”

Once the stitches were out, she was still nervous. “Going into the studio for the first time, it was a mind game: ‘Do I sound the same? Is my diction the same? Does my mouth move the same as it did before?’”

“My m’s and b’s and p’s were kind of the issue,” the “Jesus Take The Wheel” singer said about her singing. But she eventually figured her way out of it.

She also talked about making her album while she suffered from three miscarriages. “I look at a song like “Low,” and that was my year last year. It was not about a person leaving or anything like that. I listen to that song now, and there’s a good chance I’ll cry, because it was just so personal.”

But the pain made her work even harder. “I thought, ‘What am I gonna do? Go home and wallow in this all day long? No, I want to keep working.’”

Star readers know that the story has a happy ending, since Carrie is currently pregnant.