LeAnn Rimes is getting candid about her teeth problems throughout the years — which started when she got veneers as a teenager.
In a July cover story with Flow Space published on Monday, July 7, Rimes, 42, shared that she had to get her dental veneers redone by a dentist who didn’t bond them right, which led to multiple root canals and oral surgeries.
“I look at my pictures from that time, and my face was so different — it was just so swollen,” the “Can’t Fight the Moonlight” singer told the outlet. “Oh, it was awful. I was in chronic pain for, like, two-and-a-half years.”
Less than one month ago, Rimes was in the middle of a performance when her teeth fell out of her mouth on stage.
“So last night, I was on stage in the middle of ‘One Way Ticket,’ [and] I feel something pop in my mouth,” she shared via Instagram in June. “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.”
Rimes admitted that she “panicked” and told the audience to “hold on” before running to the side of the stage and putting her teeth back into her mouth.
“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, noting that for the rest of the show she had to keep pushing her teeth back into place “every couple of lines,” but it ended up being “the most epic experience ever.”
The singer revealed she doesn’t “usually have firsts” in her career, but that incident was “a first and hopefully a last.”
“In case anybody has an issue on stage ever and feels embarrassed by it, just watch this video again and it will remind you that the show can go on in the midst of sheer, utter embarrassment,” she said.
Aside from her dental issues, Rimes has also faced some other serious health issues, including undergoing surgery after finding precancerous cells in her cervix from a regular Pap smear.
“I consulted with my doctor and we jointly decided that a LEEP procedure would be in my best interest in order to remove the high grade, abnormal, pre-cancerous cells,” Rimes said in an Instagram post in January 2024, later emphasizing the importance of getting an annual physical because “early detection can be lifesaving.”
Rimes later shared that her decision to share information about the surgery came because she feels no one talks about it.
“[It’s] something so many women feel so much shame around,” she told Flow Space on Monday.
