New Orleans Saints quarterback Derek Carr stood before a church crowd in Las Vegas earlier this week, testifying of God’s goodness even in the midst of a few storms that have shaken his family.
The four-time Pro Bowl player preached at ChurchLV in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Sunday and opened up about how his wife suffered a recent miscarriage while at the same time addressing rumors surrounding his shoulder injury.
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“Yes, I have a shoulder injury,” Carr pointed out. “Despite what ESPN says and what some lady on the podcast might think, I have an MRI report to prove it. The team knows about it. We’ve been in constant communication. There’s nothing wrong. We’re figuring it out, and we’re going to go forward with that.”
“I’ve been dealing with this, and I’ve been dealing with people lying about me,” Carr continued. “And I’m like, Lord, why do I have to continue to deal with this nonsense?”
/**/Those career-related rumors are not the only difficulties Carr has been going through.
He told the crowd that while on vacation, he and his wife, Heather, and their four children had become extremely ill. And worse, his wife got burned and had to be taken to the emergency room after their fire pit exploded as she was trying to light it.
“We’re outside and we’re playing, and my wife goes over to light our new little fire thing so the kids can sit around it, and it explodes,” Carr said. “Right in her face, propane fire, boom. She’s on fire.”
“It’s crazy, second-degree burns on her arm, her whole arm, her face, her neck, all this stuff. Praise God, she’s doing great. If you look at her arm, if I never told you that story, you wouldn’t even be able to know. It’s unbelievable what God has done,” he added.
However, a couple of days later, while the football player was out of town, Carr said, his wife had to be rushed to the emergency room because she was not doing well.
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