Standing room only!
Tim McGraw took a hard fall onstage in Cincinnati Thursday night — after he showed up nearly 45 minutes late for his concert.
The country icon, 59, tumbled backward while performing “I Like It, I Love It” midway through the show at Riverbend Music Center when his cowboy boot got caught on the flooring, before getting back up and continuing to sing.
“Cincinnati, you started our weekend off on the right foot even if I couldn’t stay on mine,” McGraw quipped on Instagram Friday, sharing footage of the fall.
“We appreciate you coming out and singing along! Detroit, you’re up!”
McGraw first shared four shots from the concert before revealing the fall in the fifth slide, which featured the voiceover, “Yup, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I ended up in this situation.”
The clip then showed McGraw losing his balance and toppling backward, flailing his arms before landing on his backside, then popping back up with a smile, still clutching the microphone.
The fall came after a rocky start to the concert, as McGraw arrived onstage around 9:40 p.m., roughly 40 minutes after the show was meant to start, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported.
“I made it!” he said when he finally appeared.
The “Live Like You Were Dying” singer apologized to the crowd and blamed the delay on travel and weather issues.
It’s not the first time McGraw has taken a tumble onstage, as he collapsed from dehydration during a performance at the Country to Country festival in Dublin, Ireland in March 2018.
He laughed off that incident at the time, sharing a photo of himself in scuba gear at the bottom of the ocean with the caption, “Hydrating.”
McGraw did not pay tribute to the late Dolly Parton during his Cincinnati concert, but he had honored the country legend on social media earlier in the week.
“She was an icon and showed us all what was possible, not only as a human but as an entertainer,” he wrote on Instagram.
“She was the blueprint, head and shoulders above anyone that came before her and all those of us that have come after.”
“Everything she did, she did it with kindness, grace and that famous wit and smile. It’s been hard to not be in tears all day. There will never be another Dolly Parton,” he added.
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