BREAKING NEWS:-So sad. Kathie Lee Gifford Hospitalized, after a ruptured pelvis and later diagnosed with pelvic cancer amid Hip Replacement Recovery……….See more

The 70-year-old tells PEOPLE she suffered a fractured pelvis in two places and was hospitalized for over a week for physical therapy

Kathie Lee Gifford was hospitalized due to a fall while recovering from her recent hip replacement surgery, she tells PEOPLE exclusively. The former Today co-host, 70, says she suffered a fractured pelvis in two places and was hospitalized for over a week for physical therapy.

Gifford says she “moved 300 books by myself” during book signings in Nashville. “I weakened my body,” she says. “It’s my own fault.”

The next day, one of Gifford’s friends came by to pick her up. She hurried to the door and “just tripped,” Gifford says. “It didn’t take much, because I was weak in that spot,” Gifford tells PEOPLE. “And the next thing you know, I am back in the hospital with a fractured pelvis, the front and the back. That’s more painful than anything I went through with the hip. The pelvis is unbelievably painful. But anyway, here I am.”