Ann-Margret, 84, shares health update as she recovers from broken elbow: 'I have fallen so many times'
Ann-Margret, 84, shares health update as she recovers from broken elbow: 'I have fallen so many times'
Shania RussellTue, April 14, 2026 at 6:44 PM UTC
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Ann-Margret in 2025Credit: Monica Schipper/GettyKey Points -
Ann-Margret is sharing a reassuring health update.
The screen legend suffered a broken elbow after falling in her own home.
The Bye Bye Birdie star is set to appear at the 2026 Chit Rivera Awards in NYC on May 16.
Ann-Margret is bouncing back after suffering a nasty spill at home.
The 84-year-old film legend opened up about the accident during a recent chat with Parade, sharing, "I fell the other day and so now my right elbow is broken."
Confirming that the fall occurred earlier this month while she was at home, Ann-Margret was quick to shrug the incident off, adding, "That's okay… I have fallen so many times. I don’t intend to, but I do! What can I say?"
The five-time Golden Globe winner said that in the aftermath of being treated for her accident, she was forced to cancel an autograph signing but noted that she's well on the road to recovery now.
"I’m going to try and be really really careful and not flop down, not fall again," she said. "But one never knows!”
Ann-Margret in 2025Credit: Shutterstock / MLM IMAGES Los Angeles
In the meantime, the actress will next be seen attending the 2026 Chita Rivera Awards in New York City on May 16, where she will be presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award.
On March 11, the Lexington Comic & Toy Convention in Kentucky shared a video from Ann-Margret, announcing that she would have to cancel her autograph signing at the event, which ran from March 26-29. The clip sees her wearing a cast on her right arm.
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"I just wanted to explain, I won't be able to see you in Lexington at this time because I have a broken elbow," she says in the video. Holding it up, she shared, "I won't be able to sign anything, really. But when I will, I will see you, okay?"
Ann-Margret, who rose to fame in the '60s with roles in Bye Bye Birdie and Viva Las Vegas, is no stranger to the occasional injury. In 1972, she famously fell from a 22-foot-high platform when she was about to perform at a Lake Tahoe, Nev., casino. She detailed the aftermath in her 1994 autobiography, My Story, writing, "My face was collapsed and swollen beyond recognition. Numerous bones in my face were either broken or fractured. My jaw was broken in two places. My left arm was broken."
Ann-MargretCredit: Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty
The star, whose career as an actress, dancer, and singer has spanned seven decades, added, "The doctors feared I’d never dance again — if I survived."
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Reflecting to Parade about her eventual comeback, she credited her parents with instilling a sense of resilience in her from a young age. "I have always learned from my parents that you just get up," she said. "You just start all over again.”
She then quoted the Jerome Kern standard "Pick Yourself Up," adding, "Nothing's impossible I have found, for when my chin is on the ground. I pick myself up, I dust myself off, and I start all over again!"
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