'Monarch' star Trace Adkins had doctors 'fuse' detached finger after drilling accident so he could play guitar
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Trace Adkins told doctors how to fuse his finger back to his hand so he could play country music years ago. He performed at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville over the weekend.
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Adkins, a former offensive lineman from Louisiana, exclusively reminisced with Fox News Digital about the harrowing incident when he was working offshore on an oil rig, and was forced make a game-time decision to fix his finger in a way that would enable him to perform forever.
"I cut it off when I was working offshore on a drilling rig," he said before a performance at the iconic Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee. "Then, when they put it back on, it wasn't going to work anymore, so they just had to fuse the joints. So, I showed him how I wanted it."