• Reba McEntire has spoken out about the time she accidentally ingested a 25mg gummy while caring for her late mother Jacqueline
• The country star told the story during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
• “I swear there were weeds and flowers growing out of my head,” the queen of the country recalled

Reba McEntire learned the hard way to be careful with fortified gummies.

During an appearance on the October 28 episode The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonThe Queen of Country hilariously recalled accidentally eating too much of a 25mg gummy while caring for her late mother Jacqueline before she died of bladder cancer in March 2020.

The moment happened in January 2020 when the “Fancy” singer was spending time with Jacqueline in Oklahoma, giving her siblings Alice, Pake and Susie a break from caring for their mother.

“Alice said to me, ‘If Mommy gets any pain tonight when you all go to sleep, give her one of these gummy bears.’ And I said, ‘Okay, all right.’ And I said, ‘The whole thing?’ She said, ‘Yeah, the whole thing,'” Reba began.

“Well, I didn’t really feel comfortable with it,” he added Happy’s Place Star. “So when we went to bed I said, ‘Mom, let’s put this pain behind us. I’ll give you half of it.’ She said, “What do I do with this?” I said, ‘Put it between your cheek and your gums, like a dip skoal or something,’ you know? So, she did it, and boy, she just fell asleep.”

Reba added, “I thought, ‘Well, shoot. Mom accepts it. I have to see what she’s experiencing.’”

Previously, the Grammy winner had limited experience with gummy bears. “Maybe one time, you know, two milligrams or something like that,” she said, recalling that “the other time she took it, laid down and went to sleep.”

Later that night, Reba “felt the bed moving” and “looked over” to see her mother needed to use the bathroom. “I threw back the covers and that was it. And I thought, ‘Oh my God, I have to help her. If I don’t, I’ll look like a wimp,'” she explained. “So I thought I’ll either crawl across the bed or walk around.”

She decided to walk around, encouraged herself, slowly walked towards her mother and “finally did it.” But that wasn’t the hardest part.

“I said, ‘Are you OK?’ She said, ‘Yeah, I’m fine,’ and then she reached out and said, ‘Can you get me some more ice water?’ And I said, ‘Ice water, okay,'” Reba remembers. “So I held it and looked at the door, knowing it was far away – I hit the hallway and then the kitchen.”

At this point it was Tremble The star felt her mind “forward-forwarded” to a dark place as she thought about the headlines that could follow a possible incident: “Reba McEntire found ice everywhere in her mother’s kitchen.”

“I thought, ‘There’s no way that’s true.’ So I just turned back to mom and said, “Here you go.” And she took a sip and said, “Ugh, where’s the ice cream?” And I said, “We’re out.” She said, “We have no more ice cream?” I said, ‘Yes,'” she told Fallon, recognizing her own “terrible” behavior.

After putting Jacqueline back to bed, Reba said, “I crawled over and laid down and I swear there were weeds and flowers growing out of my head.”

“So the next day I ask everyone, ‘How many milligrams were in those things?'” she explained, adding that she learned that each full gummy contained “50” milligrams – presumably THC, although she didn’t specify said. “I took 25 milligrams. I gave my mother 25 milligrams. Still took care of mom!”

Earlier this month: Reba’s new sitcom Happy’s Place Premieres on NBC. New episodes of the series air Fridays at 8:00 p.m. EST.