Country music star LeAnn Rimes runs off stage after teeth fall out mid-concert

Country music star LeAnn Rimes has broken her silence after an “epic” incident saw her bolting off stage mid-performance.

LeAnn Rimes bolted off stage after her teeth fell out mid-performance.

The I Need You singer was mid-song at The Skagit Casino Resort in Washington recently when her dental bridge became detached.

“Last night I was on stage, in the middle of [singing] One Way Ticket,” Rimes shared in a video posted to her Instagram.

“I feel something pop in my mouth,” she continued. “And if you’ve been around, you know I’ve had a lot of dental surgeries and I have a bridge in the front and it fell out in the middle of my song last night.”

The pop star, 42, said she “panicked” before running to the side of the stage to secure her prosthetic teeth and swiftly returned back to the microphone.

LeAnn Rimes reveals her teeth fell off mid-performance, forcing her to rush off stage.

The singer tried to push her dental bridge back in but to no avail.

“Then I just had to get real with everybody and tell them exactly what was happening or else I would have had to walk off stage,” she shared.

“And so, for the rest of the show, I was literally like this, pushing my teeth in.”

Rimes said she had to push her teeth back in “every couple lines” while she singing her tunes and noted that it was in that moment she realised her song, Can’t Fight the Moonlight, had several Fs, THs, and SHs.

“Like, Can’t Fight the Moonlight, [the teeth] completely fell in my mouth,” she recalled.

Fortunately, Rimes laughed off the dental disaster and even called it “the most epic experience ever.”

“I don’t usually have firsts in my career. That was a first and hopefully a last,” she said.

Rimes was mid-song at The Skagit Casino Resort in Washington when her dental bridge became detached. Picture: Erika Goldring/Getty Images

Rimes hoped her teeth would stay in for her performance at the same venue later that night.

“We shall see,” she said before joking, “The front row, get ready for something to fly out. If you catch them, please return them.”

Rimes has had dental problems throughout her life thanks to botched dental work. The singer has been candid about her struggles with her teeth, revealing in a previous interview that she’s had 29 dental surgeries altogether to correct the damage.

In 2013, she filed a malpractice lawsuit against her former dentist, claiming the veneers he fitted on her left her with significant pain.

In legal documents filed, the singer alleged she had experienced “severe tooth pain, gum inflammation and chronic gum bleeding” as a result of the botched dental work.

Rimes at the Country Music Awards on May 8 in Frisco, Texas. Picture: Jason Kempin/Getty Images

In her recent post, Rimes concluded that she decided to take to social media to show fans that she was “keepin’ it real.”

“Like I said, there wasn’t a f***ing thing I could do about it except either walk off, or just hold my teeth in and sing, so I just ran with it,” she said. “The show can go on, even in the midst of sheer, utter embarrassment. You just gotta be real with people.”

As for the status of her faulty dental bridge, Rimes said “It’s all good.”

“They’re in for now,” she said, adding that the mishap was the most “epic” example of how the show must go on.

This article originally appeared in Page Six and was reproduced with permission

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