Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi returned to her California home late yesterday after taking a fall during an international trip overseas that required her to have emergency hip replacement surgery.
“Speaker Pelosi is well on the mend and continues to work,” Pelosi spokesperson Ian Krager told reporters.
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Last Friday, Pelosi was visiting a World War II battlefield site in Luxembourg when she fell down marble steps while wearing heels.
However, Pelosi was able to still pose for a picture immediately after.
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas), who was with Pelosi at the time, explained that she was almost down the staircase at the Grand Ducal Palace when she took the painful fall.
“I was right next to her. She likes to wear high heels — very high. She was on one of her last steps on this marble staircase that didn’t have a railing and she lost her footing and fell to the ground,” McCaul told reporters after the incident.
“I immediately helped pick her up. And we took a picture of that. You can see me holding her up by her hand and then very soon thereafter, a vehicle showed up and took her to the hospital.”
Pelosi was holding onto McCaul’s hand in the delegation photo commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge and seemed to be struggling to stand.
A Pelosi spokesperson announced she underwent hip surgery on Saturday after the fall at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center at Landstuhl Army Base in Germany.
“Earlier this morning, Speaker Emerita Pelosi underwent a successful hip replacement and is well on the mend,” spokesperson Ian Krager said.
“She’s 84, but when I talked to her on the phone, she had a lot of energy. Very spunky. She wants to get out of there, she wants to fly back home to the United States,” McCaul said Tuesday.
“Overall, she’s in good spirits.”