According to Ultimeclassicrock.com, Brittany Furlan, Tommy Lee’s wife, has recently explained how the drummer broke four of his ribs. In a Snapchat story she explained that, “We were staying at an old rental house in Nashville. It was a cool, old quirky house,” Furlan went on to explain, “But the stairs outside were made out of stones, and they were really uneven, and the roots were pushing them up from the tree. And everything was fine. I actually fell up the stairs a few times getting groceries, but whatever. So, the day that we were leaving Nashville, our driver came and we had all this luggage and he wasn’t helping us; he just stayed in the car. And so Tommy was trying to carry all of our luggage for us. And he fell down these crazy stairs and broke — broke — four ribs. Not fractured, not bruised — broke.” “And it was crazy, ’cause I came out and he couldn’t breathe,” “It was really scary. He was on the ground [and] he was gasping for air. And he got on a plane that day still and went and did the rest of rehearsals [for the tour] in Pennsylvania. He went to the hospital in Pennsylvania when we landed and they were, like, ‘You have four broken ribs.’ And they wanted to keep him there, but he did not wanna stay.” The explanation comes after Lee had to excuse himself from his performance on June 16th, due to the pain caused by the injury. At the time it was unclear what had occurred, just that Lee had four broken ribs.
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