Kacey Musgraves Pauses Tour After Mexico Fall Fractures Rib
Here’s a plot twist no one asked for: Kacey Musgraves went from crooning country ballads to starring in her own slapstick highlight reel after wiping out on slick Mexican tile and snapping rib number six. Look, I don’t want to make it sound like this was avoidable—rainy nights plus tile equals disaster 101—but apparently even Grammy winners aren’t exempt from gravity’s cruel humor.
The “Cardinal” singer, 36, broke the news on Instagram Stories June 19 by posting an X-ray ringed with the word “pain.” She confessed she was sprinting to fetch towels when she “had an extremely hard fall” and, thankfully, “didn’t smack my head,” but still managed to crash onto her back-left ribcage. “This shit is no joke,” Kacey grumbled, admitting that everything from sitting up to breathing feels like a miniature torture chamber.
Naturally, this means no spontaneous line dances, no jet-setting back to Nashville, and absolutely no live gigs for a while. Her June 22 Sing for Science event at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium with mycologist Paul Stamets was unceremoniously bumped to September 18, despite her months-long anticipation. “I am extremely bummed,” she wrote, apologizing for the reschedule but citing “no physical way” to board a plane or carry on. I told you so, right?
Of course, the timing sucks: Kacey’s summer concert series was just revving up post–Fourth of July, and she was gearing up for a landmark September rodeo show in Brazil. In April The Hollywood Reporter quoted her marveling at how “country is more about a mentality and an attitude versus geography,” praising the massive JaguarIúna rodeo turnout in São Paulo. Now she’s stuck with ice packs and Netflix.
And because one celebrity health scare wasn’t enough for the news cycle, the E! News article kindly tossed in other cautionary tales. Brian Austin Green nearly lost his appendix in April 2025, Adam Devine still battles spasms from a childhood cement-truck accident, and former Bachelor champ Jason Tartick crawled to the hospital with back pain so intense he couldn’t squat. Good company, if you like misery loves company.
In the end, Kacey Musgraves’s Mexico mishap is a painful reminder that nobody outruns bad tile or bad luck. And that, dear reader, is why we can’t have nice things.
Sources: Celebrity Storm and E! News, The Hollywood Reporter, Kacey Musgraves Instagram Stories
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