Thomas Rhett knows how to smile through the pain.
Ahead of his surprise appearance during Forrest Frank’s concert at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena April 13, the country star took a tumble—and ended up leaving the venue in a wheelchair.
“Every now and then you just have to sing at a Forrest Frank concert and break your ankle in the process,” Thomas joked in an April 15 Instagram video. “I gave my all for Tennessee tonight.”
In the video, Forrest can be seen surprising fans when he introduced his “Nothing Else” collaborator mid-show, saying, “I can’t sing Thomas Rhett’s verse, right?”
The camera then panned to a nonchalant Thomas sitting in an empty section of the arena to the side of the stage. But as he made his way down the steps, he could be seen tripping and twisting his ankle before making a quick recovery.
Still, he limped onto the stage and gave an energetic performance, jumping up and down despite the pain. But just moments after he left his all on the stage, his wife Lauren Akins—who shares daughters Willa Gray, 9, Ada James, 7, Lennon Love, 5, and Lillie Carolina, 3, with the singer—ended up pushing him around the arena in a wheelchair.
“@hiforrest told me to pull up,” Thomas captioned the video, “and I left in a wheelchair.”
After all, it seems Thomas wasn’t the only musician to have fallen victim to the dangers of performing. Indeed, Kelsea Ballerini recently fell off a moving platform during a performance of Garth Brooks’ “Friends in Low Places” on the last stop of her tour’s North American leg in Toronto.
But much like Thomas, the 31-year-old didn’t miss a beat. After she fell off the platform as it rose off the ground, the “Cowboys Cry Too” singer immediately sat up and kept singing with a giggle, turning the fall into a fabulous pose. And though the crowd let out an audible gasp, she sang the lyrics, “I’ll be okay” as she continued to put on a great show in her matching turquoise boots and bodysuit.
Perhaps the “Dibs” singer—who has been dating Outer Banks star Chase Stokes since 2023—has a bit of bad luck when it comes to concert mishaps. Because back in June 2023, she had to temporarily pause her set after she was struck in the face by an unknown object thrown onto the stage.
“Can we just talk about what happened?” she asked the crowd during the Idaho show. “All I care about is keeping everyone safe. If you ever don’t feel safe, please let someone around you know.”
Along with Kelsea, keep reading to see all the performers that have found themselves injured by objects catapulted from the crowd.
Luke Bryan
During his finale performance of “Country Girl (Shake It For Me)” at the North Dakota State Fair in 2025, the American Idol judge was pelted with a flying object. However, the musician took it in stride, finishing the song without missing a beat.
As one fan noted, “Carried on like a champ.”
Nick Jonas
The Jonas Brothers member had to send out an S.O.S and ask fans to stop throwing things on stage after two bracelets almost hit him at a California stop on the group’s tour in 2023.
Cardi B
In case it wasn’t clear, Cardi B does not like it like that. When a front row patron splashed their drink on the performer mid-set at Drai’s Beachclub in Las Vegas July 2023, she responded by throwing her microphone.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement that an unidentified woman reported a battery case the day after the concert, but noted no arrest or citations have been issued. In August 2023, Cardi’s lawyers told TMZ that police informed them no chargers would be filed against the singer.
Bebe Rexha
Baby, Bebe Rexha is gonna have the best f–kin’ night of her life no matter what happens. Struck in the face when a man at her June 2023 show in NYC threw a phone, she later posted a photo of her injured eye, writing, “I’m good.”
Todd A Spodek, a lawyer for Nicolas Malvagna, who was arrested and charged with assault, told TMZ, “As a fan, Mr. Malvagna’s sole intention was to have Ms. Rexha take photos with his phone, and return it as a keepsake. It was never his intention to injure Ms. Rehxa.”
Kelsea Ballerini
Kelsea Ballerini didn’t find it all that charming when someone tossed jewelry up on stage during a June 2023 performance in Idaho. “Someone threw a bracelet, it hit me in the eyes,” she wrote on Instagram Stories days later, “and it more so just scared me than hurt me.”
Ava Max
Listen, she’s not that sweet. Ava Max had words for the man who assaulted her during an L.A. performance in June 2023. “He slapped me so hard that he scratched the inside of my eye,” the “Sweet but Psycho” singer wrote on Twitter. “He’s never coming to a show again.”
Pink
Pink thought the fan who randomly passed her a wheel of Brie while she was singing at at London’s British Summer Time Festival in 2023 was kinda grate. “What the f–k,” the musician said, as she reached for the dairy. “I wanna kiss you on the mouth.”
But just give us a reason for why another fan tossed a bag of ashes the very next day. “This is your mom?” the “What About Us” singer asked. “I don’t know how to feel about this.”
Harry Styles
A sign of the times? Harry Styles had to get away from numerous flying objects during his Love on Tour, including, inexplicably, a handful of Skittles at a 2022 show in Los Angeles. A rep for the taste the rainbow brand later tweeted, “Didn’t think I needed to say this: Please don’t throw Skittles.”
Billie Eilish
What a boob. As Billie Eilish sang “Lost Cause” at a February 2022 show, one fan tossed a set of false boobs at her. But proving that she’s, uh, breast under pressure, the seven-time Grammy winner flung them back into the crowd and kept going.
Kid Cudi
Uh, guys, he warned you. Moments after Kid Cudi told the crowd at his 2022 Rolling Loud set, “Yo, I’m going to walk off this stage, if y’all throw one more f–king thing up here, I will leave,” he was pegged with yet another object. So he left.
Ariana Grande
Arianators were left feeling sour after Ariana Grande was beaned with a lemon while headlining Coachella in 2019. And though the singer was definitely not so into it, into it, into it, she brushed off the fruit, telling the crowd, “One of ya’ll threw a lemon at me, s–t.”
