{"id":679176,"date":"2026-05-18T18:58:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T18:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/679176\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T18:58:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T18:58:20","slug":"things-are-not-good-carrie-bickmore-reveals-major-health-fears-after-week-off-air-as-she-shares-doctors-grim-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/679176\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Things are not good’: Carrie Bickmore reveals major health fears after week off-air as she shares doctor’s grim prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carrie Bickmore has candidly revealed that her vocal cords are “in a very bad way” while addressing her absence from the airwaves over the past week.<\/p>\n

The radio star, who co-hosts Hit Network’s Carrie and Tommy between 3pm and 6pm on weekdays, returned to her show on Monday, where she provided listeners with an update regarding her health.<\/p>\n

“I am back! But this is like a \u2018one night only\u2019 special, I\u2019m only back for today,” she shared.<\/p>\n

\"Harvey<\/p>\n

Sounding audibly hoarse and filled with emotion, she revealed that, after a week away from the mic, an ear, nose and throat (ENT) specialist had given her a grim warning.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy voice hasn\u2019t been right for some time. I went to the ENT [doctor] this morning and it\u2019s in a very bad way\u2026 as you can hear!<\/p>\n

“Things are not good, so I\u2019m going to have to take some time off work to get it fixed. If I don\u2019t get it fixed now, they [vocal cords] will be permanently damaged, which will be very unfortunate for my job\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

The 45-year-old then broke down, admitting it was hard staying away from a job that she loves while also fearing the worst-case scenario: That permanent damage would mean she never returned to the airwaves.<\/p>\n

\"Kylie<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s making me upset. I\u2019ll be fine, sorry\u2026” she said, overcome with emotion, adding: “I just don\u2019t like letting people down and I don\u2019t like letting myself down.<\/p>\n

“I also really love my job and don\u2019t want to be forced not to [ever] do it again!”<\/p>\n

She added: “I\u2019m taking a little bit of time off to get it fixed. I\u2019m hoping that if I get onto it now, it will be a non-permanent thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

In response to the raw admission, her co-host Tommy Little comforted her, saying: \u201cWe just want you healthy and back to 100%, Carrie.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bickmore has seemingly been in the wars of late, taking to social media last month to reveal a shocking gash to her head, which she sustained after a late-night accident at home.<\/p>\n

The media personality posted a photo of the injury on Instagram, recounting the moment she walked into the corner of a wall over the Easter weekend.<\/p>\n

“Walked into the corner of the wall over the break. Looked like a crime scene. Blood spurting from my head,” she said.<\/p>\n

“Got it glued back together so I could go on holiday with my family the next day.”<\/p>\n

\"Delta<\/p>\n

However, Bickmore later revealed that the wound was more serious than she first thought, admitting she likely damaged a nerve.<\/p>\n

“Turns out I have hit a nerve. Healing terribly. And hurting,” she wrote.<\/p>\n

“Also randomly had a lady drop her carry-on suitcase on my head. God it hurt. Now gotta have it fixed properly by a plastic surgeon.”<\/p>\n

Finding comfort in comedy, she added: “Scars are hot yeh? Face for radio (except tonight when I am back on tv for Celebrity Intervention on channel 7)!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carrie Bickmore has candidly revealed that her vocal cords are “in a very bad way” while addressing her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,327367,211590,447,134,37761,220116,1195,327368],"class_list":["post-679176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-carrie-and-tommy","tag-carrie-bickmore","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-health-and-wellness","tag-hit-network","tag-radio","tag-vocal-cords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}