Father of the Bride star Kimberly Williams-Paisley shared details of her successful vocal cord surgery, which restored her voice after two years. “I’ve been going through a thing,” the actress’ Instagram post caption begins. “Almost two years ago I lost my voice on stage at my Alzheimer’s event in Nashville.
It was embarrassing & scary & it never quite came back. It’s been a challenging couple of years, but we finally got to the bottom of it.” Sharing a picture of herself post-op, Williams-Paisley wrote that experts identified the problem as damage to her laryngeal nerve, which controls the voice box.
“I tried everything I could to heal it (so thank you but please don’t give me any tips!). I was finally able to have surgery this week at @vanderbilthealth with expert surgeons, & it is sounding so much better!! I have a badass scar that’s smiling at me across my neck,” she wrote, before adding that the image of the mark is not for the faint of heart. The actress, who has appeared in Hallmark Christmas specials like Sister Swap and A Nashville Christmas Carol, shared that her medical journey was also personal.
“I haven’t wanted to share about this much until now because it felt too vulnerable,” Williams-Paisley continued. “I took for granted my ability to ‘use my voice’ before—for my career, for a good cause, for a timely joke, for SELF-EXPRESSION, for a loud dinner party. Instead, I’ve been the quietest in the room.
I’ve felt meek. New .