Howie Mandel is setting the record straight on his wife’s recent head injury.
The comedian, 68, clarified his story on “TMZ Live” Tuesday, revealing that his wife, Terry Mandel, had not been drinking alcohol when she fell — she was actually high on edibles.
“She was so worried that people were going to intervene with her alcohol — she doesn’t have an alcohol problem,” he said. “I’m going to tell you the truth: she took gummies.”
“I said we had a great night, we got a little tipsy, and she got out of bed in the middle of the night and fell,” Howie said, repeating the story he first told on “Live with Kelly and Mark” on Tuesday.
“It was really scary.”
Earlier today, the former “Deal or No Deal” host recalled the Vegas hotel incident that resulted in his wife falling and hitting the wainscoting. He also showed a photo of her injuries to the talk show audience.
The photo showed the 68-year-old with a sizable gash on her forehead and large purple bruising circling her eye.
“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,” he said.
The fall was so severe, the “America’s Got Talent” judge told the crowd “you could actually see her skull.”
“I freaked out,” he said of seeing her face. “I picked her up, I put her on the bed. There’s blood every[where].”