Howie Mandel is clarifying his remarks about the surrounding situation. His wife fell in a Las Vegas hotel room, bleeding and in agony.
this America’s Got Talent The judge appears TMZ Live On Tuesday, he clarified that his wife, Terry Mandel, was not drunk when she fell and seriously injured her face, but was intoxicated by eating marijuana gummies.
“First of all, she wasn’t drunk,” Mandel told TMZ. “She was very worried about people interfering with her ‘alcohol problem,’ but she didn’t have an alcohol problem. I’m going to tell you the truth – she ate the gummies.
Howie spoke about the incident for the first time on Monday, when he spoke with Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos exist Live with Kelly and Mark. Howie, 68, said that after a night of dinner and partying in Sin City, he and Terry returned to their hotel room to sleep.
“She was drunk, I didn’t know,” Howie said at the time.
However, the comedian told TMZ on Tuesday that he was just hesitant to say that his wife was drunk at the time of the incident, so he used the word “drunk” as a catch-all phrase to simply mean cognitively impaired, and I was surprised and disturbed to see how much media claimed she was drunk.
When this was first told Live with Kelly and MarkHowie said Terry slammed her face into the wainscoting, “shattering her cheek.”
Howie recalled being awakened by the sound of her falling to the floor and yelling in pain. When he turns on the light, he finds Terry lying face down in a pool of blood while the true crime series snap Background music is playing on the TV.
Howie recalled moving Terry to the bed and trying to wipe away the blood with a towel. He couldn’t find any ice, so he tried using a cold can of soda from the mini-fridge as a makeshift ice pack.
“I put it on her head and she said, ‘No!’ because it hurt, so she threw it across the room,” he shared. “When she did that, I saw her head, you could actually see her skull – it opened up. No, so I freaked out. I freaked out. And I said, ‘Oh my God, this Is the love of my life.
Howie explained that he called the front desk and asked them to call 9-1-1, and security personnel arrived at the room and they began “taking pictures of the blood on the floor, the jars and everything,” Howie recalled. Realize that you are suddenly a suspect in the scene.
“If anyone gets beaten up in that room, I guarantee it’s me,” he joked. “I’m the most annoying person in the world. My wife is a saint.”
Howie went on to explain that his wife recovered quickly, adding: “She’s absolutely perfect. No scars. She’s beautiful.”
couple Married for over 40 years They had three children together over the years. The Mandels met in high school and were initially friends before starting dating when Howie was 19.
