Howie Mandel has opened up about a terrifying incident he and his wife experienced during a recent Las Vegas trip.
During his appearance on Live With Kelly and Mark, the America’s Got Talent judge revealed that his “tipsy” wife, Terry, had a terrifying fall in their hotel room in the middle of the night.
“We partied. It was too much. She was tipsy. I did not know that, and in the middle of the night she got up and, I don’t know where she was headed, but she headed into the wall,” Mandel recounted.
“And she fell and hit the wainscoting. She hit that as she went down. She slipped, went down, hit that on her eye, then fell on the floor and broke her cheek.”
Upon hearing his wife go down, Mandel quickly turned on the light and saw her with “blood… pooling” around her head. “You could actually see her skull,” he revealed. “It opened up.”
Howie Mandel then showed a picture of his wife’s wounds, which included a gash on her forehead and a bruised eye.
“I freaked out,” he continued while speaking about the injuries. “I picked her up, I put her on the bed. There’s blood [everywhere]. I went and grabbed all the towels, and all the towels are covered with blood. And she’s going, ‘Get me ice. Get me ice.’”
Although he tried to comfort her with cold soda cans he found in the room’s mini fridge, Mandel said his wife threw them across the room. He then called down to the front desk and begged for the staff to call 9-1-1.
Howie Mandel went on to add that Terry, who he’s been married to for more than 40 years, is “doing well” since the incident. She also looks “absolutely perfect” without any scarring.
Howie Mandel Previously Revealed The Secret to His Long-Running Marriage
While speaking to PEOPLE last fall, Howie Mandel opened up about how he and Terry approach their long-running marriage.
“My wife doesn’t speak or understand a word of English, so that’s what works for us,” the comedian joked. “I don’t know how to say ‘I am funny’ in her language, but it works for us.”
Howie Mandel went on to declare, “Communication is overrated. I’ve been married for 43 years and we haven’t said a word to each other.”
This isn’t the first time that the comedian gushed about his marriage.
While recalling how he and Terry met, Mandel spoke on Today with Hoda & Jenna in 2022 about how they first locked eyes while waiting to buy french fries.
“I actually borrowed money from her,” he recalled. “I didn’t know her, and I was short a couple of bucks for french fries and she lent me money. She was, like, 14 at the time and she lent me money. And I’ve been paying her back ever since.”
Despite Terry rejecting him at the beginning and the two having a rough first date because of the weather, Mandel said he was finally able to pop the question.
“I was sitting in a deli, and I’d bought a loose diamond, and I put it on the table and said, ‘I got to go to the bathroom, but if you want to make a ring go ahead,’” he shared with Streets of Toronto.
The couple was married in 1980 and have three children together.