Y2K Pop Star Recalls 'Trauma' From Harrowing Onstage Mishap

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Y2K Pop Star Recalls 'Trauma' From Harrowing Onstage Mishap originally appeared on Parade.

When Destiny's Child reunited onstage at Beyoncé's final Cowboy Carter tour show, Michelle Williams had only three words on her mind: "Do not fall."

The "Survivor" singer, who is currently starring in the Tony-nominated Broadway adaption of Death Becomes Her, got real about her fear of falling on the most recent episode of her mental health podcast, Checking In With Michelle Williams.

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Her worries, she explained, stem from the viral moment she fell down the stairs during Destiny's Child's performance of "Soldier" on 106 & Park in the early 2000s.

"I was trying to stay focused because y'all know I still have trauma from falling on106 & Park," she said about her concentration while performing with fellow Destiny's Child bandmates Beyoncé and Kelly Rowland at Bey's Vegas show last month.

"I need y'all to be my therapist about that too," she told her listeners, "because every time I perform with the girls, it's in my head: 'Do not fall, do not fall, do not fall,'" Williams laughed, before jokingly calling out Destiny's Child's '00s stylist Ty Hunter, who spoke to the person in charge of costumes on the Cowboy Carter tour.

"Ty Hunter is like, 'Child, we got to cut these fringes off because we do not want Michelle to fall," she shared with fans. "I was like, 'Bro, that was between me and you. You didn't have to make no announcement.' But yeah, that's still in my head. Steps do frighten me."

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Williams' abundance of caution was evident in video footage from the Destiny's Child Cowboy Carter reunion, as the singer noticeably hesitated and kept her eye on the floor while walking down the stairs with Beyoncé and Rowland. All three were color-coordinated in Bey's signature silver and fringe.

"Michelle was watching dem steps! Making sure they didn’t move!!" one fan joked in the comments section of a TikTok video of the surprise performance.

Williams acknowledged that she second-guessed herself on that first step "because y'all, I was like, 'I'm not gonna let social media do me. I'm not. Because if that were to happen, and I fell, I would not be able to live that down for the next 20 years,'" she confessed. "So that's probably the only thing I didn't like, was that I didn't trust the steps."

Of course, not only did Williams not tumble this time — she also knocked it out of the park, with fans obsessing over the girl group's onstage reunion.

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While Williams joked that her fans needed to be her therapist, one die-hard follower was more concerned about getting time with their own psychologist after not being able to witness the Destiny's Child reunion in real life.

"Jealousy doesn’t even come close to what I’m feeling rn. My therapist about to be paid overtime," they quipped in the TikTok comments.

Y2K Pop Star Recalls 'Trauma' From Harrowing Onstage Mishap first appeared on Parade on Aug 2, 2025

This story was originally reported by Parade on Aug 2, 2025, where it first appeared.