Singer Carrie Underwood brutally falls off stage in pouring rain at music festival

Country music star Carrie Underwood took a nasty fall onstage after performing at a music festival in torrential rain.

Carrie Underwood took a nasty fall onstage in the pouring rain at the Carolina Country Music Fest in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, on Sunday night.

The country superstar, 41, finished performing her classic Before He Cheats when she walked toward the back of the stage in the midst of a rainstorm, as seen in a TMZ video and various other clips shared on TikTok, the New York Post reports.

The footage shows Underwood suddenly taking a tumble off the stage and disappearing.

The audience screamed in response to her fall.

“She fell!” several fans could be heard screaming.

Carrie Underwood soldiered on in the rain at the Carolina Country Music Fest in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

Underwood had just sung Before He Cheats before the incident.

The singer was walking into the trapdoor when she appeared to stack it.

Underwood seemed to reference the mishap when she shared an Instagram post about the concert on Monday.

“Well, last night sure was fun! And though the ending was quite unexpected, it made for a night we’ll never forget! Thanks for being awesome, #MyrtleBeach !” she wrote.

The Post has reached out to Underwood’s rep for comment.

The 2005 American Idol winner also shared a video of her performance in the rain, writing, “We won’t let a little rain stop us! We won’t let a massive downpour stop us, either!”

Fans praised Underwood for carrying on with her show in the middle of a torrential downpour.

“That’s commitment and dedication to the fans that put her there. No one else like her,” one fan commented.

“She’s a true artist who cares about her fans,” another person wrote.

“It was AMAZING. The rain was such an amazing ending to a hot hot weekend,” a different person said.

Another fan called Underwood’s performance a “life changing experience.”

Underwood later seemingly mentioned the “unexpected” mishap in an Instagram post. Picture: Robyn Beck / AFP

The singer said she was glad she didn’t stop for a “little rain”. Picture: Rich Fury/Getty Images

Underwood headlined the ninth year of the Carolina Country Music Fest for the first time and sang a number of her hits, including Jesus,Take the Wheel, Good Girl and the aforementioned Before He Cheats.

The event crowd reportedly exceeded 35,000 attendees.

Underwood has mostly been in Las Vegas lately for her Reflection residency at Resorts World, which began in 2021.

The residency has been so successful that Underwood has continued to extend its run, with her final Las Vegas show planned for October.

“What I love about Vegas is you’re in one place, but everybody is from everywhere,” she previously told Rolling Stone.

“It’s a mishmash of people from all over the place. It’s cool to look out at the audience and think about that.”

This article originally appeared in New York Post and was reproduced with permission