Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is back home in California this week after suffering a fall in “very high” heels that required her to have hip replacement surgery during her trip to Europe.
“Speaker Pelosi is well on the mend and continues to work,” her spokesperson Ian Krager told the New York Post.
Wearing heels, Pelosi slipped down marble steps while touring a World War II war site in Luxembourg on Friday. She then posed for a photo right away.
The Democrat was nearly down the Grand Ducal Palace staircase when she suffered a terrible fall, according to Michael McCaul (R-Texas), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
“I was right next to her. She likes to wear high heels — very high. She was on one of her last steps on this marble staircase that didn’t have a railing and she lost her footing and fell to the ground. I immediately helped pick her up. And we took a picture of that. You can see me holding her up by her hand and then very soon thereafter, a vehicle showed up and took her to the hospital,” McCaul told reporters after the incident.
In the delegation photo honoring the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, Pelosi appeared to be having difficulty standing while grasping McCaul’s hand.
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