Carrie Underwood falls onstage, follows up with jokes on Twitter

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Carrie Underwood gets her makeup touched up before posing for fan pictures backstage prior to her concert at Staples Center Oct. 16, 2012. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

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Carrie Underwood signs an autograph for a fan backstage before her concert. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

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Carrie Underwood poses for fan pictures with Brook Brehm, 10, right, backstage. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

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Carrie Underwood heads out from her tour motorhome on her way to a radio interview at Staples Center. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

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Carrie Underwood attaches a wireless earpiece before a sound check at Staples Center. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

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Carrie Underwood walks through a phalanx of Staples ushers backstage before her concert. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

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Carrie Underwood talks during a radio interview backstage at Staples Center. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

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Carrie Underwood’s band plays during a sound check on stage. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

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Carrie Underwood sings during a sound check on the stage inside an empty Staples Center prior to her concert. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

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Carrie Underwood sings during a sound check on the stage inside an empty Staples Center. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

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Carrie Underwood performs on stage at Staples Center. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

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Her audience cheered every supernaturally sustained note and glass-threatening vocal climax, offering positive reinforcement as if to an Olympic pole-vaulter scaling ever higher altitudes. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

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During the show, Carrie Underwood reminded the crowd that it was a mere eight years ago that she took her first ride on an airplane -- to come to Los Angeles to take part in “American Idol.” (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

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Carrie Underood’s band joins her during the performance. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

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The show opened at maximum voltage and operated there for the bulk of the evening. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

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Underwood put on a spectacular production aimed at the “American Idol” crowd that launched her career, full of dazzling costume changes, creative staging and megawatts of musical wattage. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

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Imagery played a major part in the show, and a clever array of video screens around Underwood brought loads of color and music-video energy to the performance by the star and her eight-member backup group. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

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The Muskogee, Okla. native donated $1 from each concert ticket sold on her tour is to the Red Cross. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

By Nardine Saad

Sept. 6, 2013 10:30 AM PT

Carrie Underwood fell right on her bottom onstage during a concert in Corpus Christi, Texas, on Thursday.

The “American Idol” alum was performing for her “Blown Away” tour when she tumbled away in front of a packed American Bank Center Arena. While she was belting out one foot-stomping song, the songstress got a bit overzealous and her sky-high heel caught on the back of her long, flowy T-shirt. That move forced her to plunge to the ground and bounce onto her derriere.

But the six-time Grammy winner handled the spill like a pro, finished singing as she was seated and even took to Twitter to acknowledge her foible.

“Hey, remember that time in Corpus Christi when that girl busted her butt on stage?! Hilarious!” she wrote, “Oh wait, that was me! #5inchheels #klutz”

PHOTOS: Carrie Underwood backstage and onstage

But the situation turned out to have a lasting effect.

“I can’t move my toes. Is that bad?” she noted.

Hours later, the 30-year-old returned to the micro-blogging site to keep fans informed about her health. (She’s still set to perform at the State Farm Arena in Hidalgo, Texas, on Friday).

“Good news, it’s not broken...AND I got some new footwear!” she wrote, posting a photo of a medical boot enveloping her left foot, with her perfectly manicured toes peeking out.

The singer also bantered with followers after the mishap, which comes days after her husband, NHL’s Mike Fisher, was bitten by a chipmunk at their home.

One fan insisted that Underwood didn’t fall Thursday, but “attacked the floor,” instead. You know, “while wearing five inch heels” because “she’s got mad ninja skills.”

Even country crooner Brad Paisley got in on the action. (He’s co-hosting the CMAs with her on Nov. 6.)

“The graceful, the nimble, the cat-like reflexes of @carrieunderwood,” he teased, sharing a fan video of the flap on Instagram.

Well, Underwood didn’t exactly appreciate that, and fired back with a YouTube video of Paisley falling onstage too.

“@BradPaisley I learn from the best! Brad Paisley Falling https://youtu.be/yyVJjWl5ix8,” she tweeted.

“At least I wasn’t drunk. :)” he said.

To which she replied, “You know I don’t drink on stage! I’m uncoordinated enough as it is!”

But Paisley had to have the last word.

“c’mon Carrie, you’re not fooling anybody. We all love you anyway. :)”

OK, because parenthetical smiley faces make everything better!

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