"With all due respect to everyone working the Tony Awards, somewhere down the line there was a lack of communication and the prop should have been immediately halted until Michaels was clear," Janna Elias, a rep for Michaels, writes in a statement published on his Web site.
Michaels, 46, said after the incident he broke his nose and required stitches to his lip after he was hit by a large sign being lowered from the ceiling as he exited the stage following a performance with his group Poison. In the new statement, Elias says: "The severity of this injury is not being taken lightly as symptoms from head and neck injuries at first may seem like nothing and sometimes do not present for days. At this time the full extent of his injuries remains to be seen until all x-rays are back."
The statement also alleges that the producers of the Tony Awards did not respond adequately after the mishap. "I feel had this incident happened to Liza Minnelli, Dolly Parton or Elton John, the Tonys would have at least issued a letter of concern," Elias says.
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