Candy is not one of them Reba McEntireIt’s everyday life.

The country’s queen, 69, told a story about The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon about accidentally take a 25 mg candy while caring for her late mother, Jacqueline, and said she had limited experience with psychoactive sweets.

“Maybe once, you know, like two milligrams or something,” McEntire said in the interview.

The “Fancy” singer accidentally overindulged in candy while caring for her mother, Jacqueline, in January 2020, about two months before she did. died of bladder cancer in March of the same year.

At the time, Reba traveled to Oklahoma to spend time with Jacqueline and give her siblings, Alice, Pake and Susie, a break from their work. Alice asked Reba to give Jacqueline a whole candy before bed, but she “wasn’t really comfortable with it.”

“So when we started going to bed, I said, ‘Mom, let’s anticipate this pain. I’ll give you half of that,'” she explained. “She said, ‘Well, what do I do with this?’ I said, “Put it between your cheek and your gum like a Skoal dip or something,” you know, so she did it, and boy, she just fell asleep? .”

Reba added, “I was like, ‘Well, shoot. Mom’s taking it. I need to see what she’s going through.'”

The Grammy winner took the other half and “fell asleep.” In the middle of the night, Jacqueline woke up to go to the bathroom – and her daughter realized how much the gum was impacting her mental state.

“I threw the covers off – and that’s about all I could. And I was like, ‘Oh my God, I have to help him. I’m going to look like a wimp if I don’t don’t,’” Reba said. “So, I figured I’m either going to crawl on the bed or I’m going to take a walk.”

THE The place of happiness The star managed to make his way to Jacqueline, who then asked him for a glass of iced water, but the kitchen was “far away”. She soon found herself imagining a potentially grim news headline: “Reba McEntire found in mother’s kitchen, ice everywhere.”

“So I turned around to mom and said, ‘Here you go.’ And she took a sip and she said, “Ugh, where’s the ice cream?” And I said, “We’re out.” ‘Yeah,’” Reba continued.

Once she put Jacqueline back to bed, the Voice The coach “lay down” – and swore he saw “weeds and flowers growing out of my head”.

“So the next day I ask everyone, ‘How many milligrams were in these things?'” detailed Reba, who learned that each full gummy contained “50” milligrams – probably THC, but she did not specify. “I took 25 milligrams. I gave my mom 25 milligrams. I still took care of mom!”

THE Reba the actress’ new sitcom, The place of happinessairs Fridays at 8 p.m. ET on NBC and streams on Peacock — and it premiered its theme song with the legendary Carole King.