You can learn a lot about a person and their outlook on life based on how they behave during a stressful situation, and how they react to an embarrassing moment is certainly no exception!
Take LeAnn Rimes, for example, who kept on singing and later joked about fans finding and returning her fake teeth after her bridgework came out while performing a live concert. You read that correctly!
In a storytime video on TikTok that quickly spread across social media, Rimes shared the story of performing at the Skagit Casino Resort in Bow, Washington, when her front bridge popped out. She repeatedly kept pushing it back into place while performing.
The country singer reflected:
"I was onstage and in the middle of 'One Way Ticket,' and 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, and it fell out in the middle of my song."
"I ran to the side of the stage and put it back in, like popped it back in, and then just went on singing."
"And then I just had to get real with everybody and tell them exactly what was happening, or else I would have had to walk offstage. For the rest of the show, I was literally pushing my teeth in, like every couple lines, and singing."
"I don't usually have firsts in my career. That was a first and hopefully a last."
She even joked about what could go wrong in the future:
"Get ready for something to fly out. If you catch them, please return them!"
You can watch the video here:
Fellow TikTokers cheered Rimes for pushing through the moment.
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The story also became popular on Instagram, where fans declared that they loved her even more than before because of this.
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Then the folks on Twitter (X) leaned hard into the humor of the situation.
We love that Rimes could lean into the humor, laugh at herself, and keep singing. Maybe more people could take a page from her playbook!
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