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LeAnn Rimes is opening up about her long history of dental issues that ultimately led to her teeth falling out on stage last month.
The 42-year-old singer has been in the spotlight most of her life, from competing on Star Search as a child and releasing her first independent album at just nine, before becoming a bona fide country music star at just 13.
She ventured into acting as well and made headlines for her affair with Eddie Cibrian before they tied the knot back in 2011, and still going strong today.
However, she’s had more than her fair share of health struggles, including dealing with the chronic autoimmune condition psoriasis
She has also dealt with plenty of dental drama as well, opening up on what started it all in a wide-ranging cover story for Flow Space.
She revealed that a decision to get veneers at just 16 is what started it all, but it wasn’t from the first time she had them done.

LeAnn Rimes is opening up about her long history of dental issues that ultimately led to her teeth falling out on stage last monthÂ

The 42-year-old singer has been in the spotlight most of her life, from competing on Star Search as a child and releasing her first independent album at just nine, before becoming a bona fide country music star at just 13
Sometime after getting veneers in the first place, she went to a different dentist to have them redone, except he didn’t ‘bond them correctly.’
Rimes had to undergo a decade’s worth of root canals and oral surgeries after the botched bonding, which was quite painful.
‘I look at my pictures from that time, and my face was so different—it was just so swollen,’ Rimes admitted.
‘Oh, it was awful. I was in chronic pain for, like, two-and-a-half years,’ Rimes continued.
That ultimately lead to the incident last week, while on stage at the Skagit Valley Casino & Resort in Bow, Washington, her dental bridge popped out.’
She took to Instagram last week, revealing what happened when her teeth popped out at that performance just one night earlier.
‘We’re going to do a little story time about how the show must go on. And this is the most epic example of how the show must go on.
‘So last night, I was on stage in the middle of One Way Ticket. I feel something pop in my mouth. And if you’ve been around, you know I’ve had a lot of dental surgeries, and I have a bridge in the front. It fell out in the middle of my song last night,’ she admitted.

Sometime after getting veneers in the first place, she went to a different dentist to have them redone, except he didn’t ‘bond them correctly.’

‘Oh, it was awful. I was in chronic pain for, like, two-and-a-half years,’ Rimes continued.

She stopped the performance and yelled out, ‘Hold on!,’ as she ran to the side of the stage and popped her bridge back in
She stopped the performance and yelled out, ‘Hold on!,’ as she ran to the side of the stage and popped her bridge back in.Â
‘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. And so, for the rest of the show, I was literally like this pushing my teeth in like every couple lines and singing,’ she continued.
It wasn’t the first time she had a bizarre mishap on stage, with a 2014 Oklahoma performance ending early because her jaw popped out of place, resulting in her having to skip the encore performance.
‘Oklahoma!!!! I love you so much! I’m sorry for no encore. I had my jaw pop out of place & I can’t hear out of my left ear,’ she tweeted at the time.
‘I had the best time tonight with my Oklahoma fans! I love y’all!’ she added.