Sarah Michelle Gellar: Freddie Prinze Jr. 'greatly exaggerated' injuries

Actor Freddie Prinze, Jr. and wife, actress Sarah Michelle Gellar pose as they arrive at the launch party for In2TV, the first broadband television network on the Internet March 15, 2006 in Beverly Hills, California. In2TV available free on AOL.com will offer thousands of classic television shows such as 'Welcome Back Kotter,' 'Chico & The Man,' and 'Wonder Woman' as well as interactive features. Prinze's father Freddie Prinze starred in 'Chico & The Man.' REUTERS/Fred Prouser - RTR177Y1

Sarah Michelle Gellar isn’t afraid to tell it like it is-- even when it means contradicting her husband of 12 years, Freddie Prinze Jr.

The actress opened up to Us Weekly about her husband’s recent surgery and said that things weren’t as dramatic as the actor made them seem.

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“He’s fine,” she told the magazine. “He did have very serious surgery, there’s no question, but his 'learning how to walk again' has been greatly exaggerated."

Prinze tweeted several photos of himself with a neck brace and wrote that he was relearning to walk after spinal surgery.

Gellar found humor in the way the story of her husband’s surgery got blown out of proportion.

“I can’t even," she told Us Weekly, laughing. "I’m not joking. Our mail woman -- God bless her heart -- was like, ‘I prayed for you Freddie and it worked, you’re walking.’”

Prinze and Gellar have two children, Charlotte, 5 and son Rocky, 2.