Republican Senator Mitt Romney said on Monday that he was recovering after a fall over the weekend that knocked him unconscious and led to “a lot of stitches.”

The Utah Republican said that he “took a fall” while in Boston as he was visiting his son and grandchildren.

Romney told reporters he went to a hospital to get stitches.

The senator was seen on Capitol Hill with a black eye and stitches above his eye and his lip.

(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Bengaluru; Editing by Christopher Cushing)