Wearing heels, Pelosi slipped down marble steps while touring a World War II war site in Luxembourg on Friday. She then posed for a photo right away.<\/p>\n
The Democrat was nearly down the Grand Ducal Palace staircase when she suffered a terrible fall, according to Michael McCaul (R-Texas), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was right next to her. She likes to wear high heels \u2014 very high. She was on one of her last steps on this marble staircase that didn\u2019t have a railing and she lost her footing and fell to the ground. I immediately helped pick her up. And we took a picture of that. You can see me holding her up by her hand and then very soon thereafter, a vehicle showed up and took her to the hospital,\u201d McCaul told reporters after the incident.<\/p>\n
In the delegation photo honoring the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, Pelosi appeared to be having difficulty standing while grasping McCaul\u2019s hand.<\/p>\n
According to the former speaker\u2019s spokeswoman, she had hip surgery at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center at Landstuhl Army Base in Germany on Saturday following the fall.<\/p>\n
Earlier this morning, Speaker Emerita Pelosi underwent a successful hip replacement and is well on the mend,\u201d spokesperson Ian Krager said.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s 84, but when I talked to her on the phone, she had a lot of energy. Very spunky. She wants to get out of there, she wants to fly back home to the United States. Overall, she\u2019s in good spirits,\u201d McCaul said Tuesday.<\/p>\n