Kathie Lee Gifford is grateful for all the prayers that have been said for her, which she believes have led to her speedy recovery from a broken pelvis this summer.

During a chat with her TODAY family on Aug. 13, the former co-host opened up to Hoda Kotb, Craig Melvin, Al Roker and Sheinelle Jones about her pelvic fracture and the miraculous recovery that followed.

“I was running down the stairs in my house in Tennessee because my boyfriend got locked out of my back door and it was 100 degrees outside,” she told TODAY about how the fracture occurred in July. “I was going too fast in stupid shoes and I fell.”

However, just two weeks later, Kathie Lee realized she was no longer in pain. After calling her doctor to ask if the recovery would be worse, he encouraged her to come in for an x-ray.

“He came in with my X-ray and said, ‘Look at this, Kathie,'” she said. “You’re completely healed.”

Kathie Lee expressed her gratitude to the “hundreds of thousands of people” who had prayed for her and her speedy recovery.

“If that happens to you, you have to give credit to all the prayers. I cry when I think of the people who reached out to me,” she said.

In a statement to NBC News shortly after the fall, the former co-host of TODAY with Kathie Lee & Hoda thanked her for the well wishes she had received.

“I want to thank everyone who has reached out to me with their prayers and their kind thoughts. It’s a reminder of how vulnerable you are and how amazing God is,” she said in part. “I fully realize that what I’m going through is nothing compared to what so many other people in this world are going through, and I have so much empathy and compassion for those who are in chronic pain but don’t have options or resources. I pray for them all the time, knowing that I am incredibly blessed: not only with all of those things, but with family and loved ones and friends who support me with their gifts and their prayers, but most importantly their hearts.”

Kathie Lee, 70, told People she was hospitalized for more than a week after falling. She said she moved 300 books by herself during book signings in Nashville for her book “Herod and Mary” and that she “weakened her body.”

“It’s my own fault,” said Kathie Lee.

The fall and hospitalization occurred while she was recovering from recent hip surgery.

“It didn’t take much because I was weak in that area,” Kathie Lee told People. “Then the next thing you know, I’m back in the hospital with a broken pelvis: front and back. That’s more painful than anything I’ve ever had with my hip. The pelvis is incredibly painful. But anyway, here I am.”

She said she decided to stay in the hospital for a whole week for physical therapy.

“You think you know your body and then the next thing you know, your body changes as you get older,” she said. “And as much as I don’t want to think about it, it’s me.”

Shortly after Kathie Lee underwent hip surgery, she told Hoda Kotb in a July 17 appearance on TODAY about the “agonizing pain” she felt prior.

“They were looking for the problem in my spine. They finally figured out what it was, and by that time I was in terrible pain,” she recalled. “My doctor had finished the surgery, came in and said it had gone beautifully, and then he said, ‘Kathie, how have you held up all this time? (You had) one of the worst hips I’ve ever seen.'”

This article was originally published on TODAY.com