Robin Roberts Returns to “GMA” with Fractured Wrist After 'Little Tumble on the Tennis Court'
Linsey Davis filled in for Roberts when she was absent for the April 29 episode of 'Good Morning America'
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Robin Roberts on 'Good Morning America'After a small mishap, Robin Roberts is back on Good Morning America.
The longtime GMA anchor, 63, returned to the program for its April 30 broadcast with a bandaged wrist just one day after her absence from the April 29 episode. Amid her brief hiatus, ABC News' Linsey Davis stepped up to fill in for Roberts.
Co-anchor George Stephanopoulos welcomed Roberts back, jesting after a padel tennis segment, “I don’t want you to get upset seeing that tennis on the screen. I know you had a little spill this weekend.”
Jabbing at the air, Roberts volleyed, “Oh, no no. You should've seen the other guy! I mean, I tried to uppercut.”
“Little tumble on the tennis court," she elaborated. "Maybe I’ll take up padel. Maybe that’ll be my sport.”
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When Stephanopoulos, 63, asked how she felt, Roberts joked that she could not “confirm or deny” whether she was on pain medication but she was “seeing rainbows.”
ABC News Correspondent Gio Benitez then remarked, “I know it’s been really painful, but listen: Nobody makes a cast look cuter.”
Roberts, who played college basketball at Southeastern Louisiana University, explained in a video on Instagram, “All my years of being a competitive athlete, my first fracture and hopefully my last one as well.”
Continuing with a “very appropriate” morning message and prayer, Roberts said, “When it’s your time, doors are gonna open, freedom will come, healing will show up, good breaks will find you.”
In the caption, Roberts wrote, "Good Morning! Playing a little hurt this morning but Glam Fam and I would still like to share with you our #tuesdaythoughts #cmon 😘."
The former ESPN sportscaster joined Good Morning America in April 2002 before being promoted to co-anchor in 2005, where she hosted alongside other iconic journalists like Diane Sawyer and Charles Gibson. During her two decades on the show, she has undergone two treatments for her health: chemotherapy for a breast cancer diagnosis in 2007 and a bone marrow transplant for myelodysplastic syndrome in 2012.
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