Glee star Kristin Chenoweth: Film set injury left lasting damage
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Glee star Kristin Chenoweth says she is suffering mentally and physically after she was nearly killed on set by a falling lighting fixture.
The 45-year-old singer was filming an episode of The Good Wife when she was struck on the face when the fixture fell 20 feet, knocking her back on to a kerb which cracked her skull.
But the Emmy and Tony award-winner, who has also appeared in The West Wing and Pushing Daisies, has battled back to fitness and is now set to headline her first show at the Royal Albert Hall in July.
The gig will mark two years since the accident.
She said: “Certainly I’ve had some lasting symptoms. My neck isn’t great and my nose still swells up and bruises. When you have a brain injury you think it’s going to be healed like nothing.
“I still have problems with perception of time and memory but I’m doing so much better.
I definitely look up a lot more when I’m on stage now! But I’m here — I lived.”
An Evening With Kristin Chenoweth will see her perform songs from her varied career. She added: “For a singer, this is our way to speak. I grew up singing in church, then I got my degree and did opera, and then went to New York to become known for Broadway. So this show is hard — it’s my greatest challenge. I’m coming in to the UK early to get lots of rest and get acclimatised. I’m so nervous about performing at the Royal Albert Hall. I really want to honour it. It’s a real bucket list thing for me.”
It will be the first time the star has sung in London since appearing in Divas at the Donmar in 2002.
An Evening with Kristin Chenoweth is at the Royal Albert Hall on July 12. livenation.co.uk.
