Kimberly Williams-Paisley is on the mend after undergoing vocal cord surgery following a private health battle that began two years ago. “I’ve been going through a thing,” Williams-Paisley, 52, began via Instagram on Saturday, August 17, sharing a photo of herself at the hospital. The Father of the Bride actress explained that her voice “never quite came back” after losing it during an Alzheimer’s event in Nashville “almost two years ago.
” (Williams-Paisley and her sister, Ashley Williams , have been Alzheimer’s advocates for years after their late mother died after suffering from the illness.) Williams-Paisley said the experience was “embarrassing” and “scary” as she tried “everything” she could to heal it. “I have damage to my laryngeal nerve,” she revealed, noting the doctors were finally able to figure out the problem.
The diagnosis led to surgery earlier that week. “It is sounding so much better!!” Williams-Paisley shared, joking, “I have a badass scar that’s smiling at me across my neck,” which she warned might be gnarly for the squeamish. Williams-Paisley confessed that she didn’t want to share her journey earlier because “it felt too vulnerable.
” During her health battle, the Hallmark star learned that she “took for granted my ability to ‘use my voice’” whether it was for her job, a good cause or at a “loud dinner party.” Over the past few years, Williams-Paisley said she became the “quietest in the room,.