Howie Mandel is recounting a frightening situation with his signature sense of humor. O America has talent the judge shared a story about how a night out with his wife, Terry Mandel, went wrong during a recent trip to Las Vegas, Nevada.
‘We partied… like it was too much,’ he admitted Kelly Ripa It is Marcos Consuelos on Monday’s episode of Live with Kelly and Mark.
Howie, 68, said that after dinner and a night of revelry in Sin City, he and Terry went back to their hotel room and went to sleep.
“She was intoxicated, I didn’t know that,” Howie said. “In the middle of the night, I don’t know where she was going, but she hit the wall and fell.”
Howie said Terry hit his face on the wainscoting and “broke his cheek.” The comedian then shared a gruesome photo of her injuries, which included deep purple bruises and cuts to her eyes and forehead.
“People say, ‘What happened?’ It says, ‘Vegas!’” he said with a laugh, admitting he “can’t look” at the photo.
While Howie — who has been open in the past about his OCD-induced fear of germs — is able to laugh about the situation now, it was decidedly scarier at the time. O Bobby’s world star said he was woken up by the sound of her falling to the floor and screaming in pain. When he turned on the light, he found Terry lying face down in a pool of blood as the true crime spree It hit was playing in the background on the TV.
“I freaked out,” he said.
Howie remembers taking Terry to bed, where he tried to mop up the blood with towels. He couldn’t find ice, so he tried using cold soda cans from the minibar fridge as a makeshift ice pack.
“I put it in her head and she said, ‘No!’ because it hurt and she threw it across the room,” he shared. “When she did that, I saw her head and you could actually see her skull — it opened up. No, then I freaked out. I freaked out. And I said, ‘Oh my God, this is the love of my life. ‘ ”
Howie said he called the front desk and asked them to call 911.
Security immediately came to the room and began “taking pictures of the blood on the floor and the cans and everything,” Howie recalled, realizing that he had suddenly become a suspect in the scene.
“If anyone was beaten in that room, I promise it would be me,” he joked. “I’m the most boring person in the world. My wife is a saint.”
Terry and Howie ended up going to the hospital, even though Terry was still “drunk.” At one point, Howie said, she frantically told doctors that she couldn’t see without realizing it was because she was holding a sheet over her face.
“It wasn’t your Holy elsewhere does training help you in this scenario?” Consuelos wondered during the conversation, referencing Howie’s role as Dr. Wayne Fiscus on the 1980s medical series.
“Do you realize this is an act?” Howie fired back. “I’m not really a doctor.”
All’s well that ends well, as Terry apparently recovered from the spill as good as new.
“She’s absolutely perfect,” Howie said. “There is no scar. She is beautiful.”
The couple has been married for over 40 years and together they have three children. The Mandels met in high school and were friends before they started dating when Howie was 19.
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