He’s any individual’s drawback.
Nation music star Morgan Wallen, 31, was mocked by his friends on the 2024 Academy of Nation Music Awards on Thursday.
“Schitt’s Creek” star Noah Reid and Ashley McBryde went onstage collectively to current the award for Single of the 12 months. Nominees included Wallen, Parker McCollum, Jelly Roll, Jordan Davis and Luke Combs.
McBryde and Reid did a duet with a parody of the nominated artists’ songs -– and once they received to Wallen, the pair took intention at his latest arrest for throwing a chair off of a bar rooftop.
“Final evening after some alcohol, [the] chair proper over there actually began to piss me off,” Reid sang to the tune “Final Night time,” which is Wallen’s nominated track.
“They instructed me that I threw it at any individual that I by no means met, and my publicist retains telling me this ain’t over but.”
McBryde then chimed in and sang, “Yeah. It is best to smile within the mugshot,” referencing Wallen’s mug shot, the place he wore an enormous smile.
On April 7, Wallen was taken into custody after he threw a chair from the sixth ground of Chief’s Bar in downtown Nashville simply after 10:45 p.m. Sunday, in line with native media.
Fellow nation musician Eric Church owns the bar.
Wallen was arrested and charged with three counts of reckless endangerment and one rely of disorderly conduct.
“At 10:53 pm Sunday night Morgan Wallen was arrested in downtown Nashville for reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct,” his legal professional Worrick Robinson instructed The Submit in a press release. “He’s cooperating absolutely with authorities.”
In response to onlookers, Wallen laughed concerning the incident.
This wasn’t the singer’s first time stirring controversy.
He confronted backlash in February 2021 after he was caught utilizing the N-word in a video recorded by his Nashville neighbors and obtained by TMZ. This led to his album “Harmful” getting disqualified by a number of award exhibits.
He apologized in a public assertion shortly thereafter, saying he was “embarrassed” over his actions.
He additionally received arrested in Might 2020 on intoxication and disorderly conduct fees after being kicked out of Child Rock’s Honky Tonk bar in downtown Nashville.
Following that arrest, he took to X after his launch to apologize for his conduct.
“Hey y’all simply needed to clear the air. I went out downtown final evening with a number of outdated buddies. After a pair bar stops, we have been horse-playing with one another,” he wrote on the time. “We didn’t imply any hurt, and we wish to make an apology to any bar employees or anybody that was affected.”
“Thanks to the native authorities for being so skilled and doing their job with class,” he added in one other tweet. “Love y’all.”
“He appears to like getting in hassle on Broadway,” Jason Steen — who runs ScoopNashville.com, a website chronicling Music Metropolis arrests, together with Wallen’s — instructed The Submit in April. “That has simply been his factor.
“He’s like a school man. It’s nothing to see Wallen leaving the bars with people and ending up on the Waffle Home at 3 a.m.”
Wallen was relationship social media influencer KT Smith, 29, in 2016, with whom he has a son. However, the 2 cut up in 2020, and Smith not too long ago received remarried.
After Wallen’s newest arrest for the April chair-throwing incident, a supply instructed the Every day Mail it may need been impressed by the information that Smith not too long ago received married to another person.
“KT’s marriage … simply crushed him,” a supply instructed the outlet. “No matter occurred within the bar needed to be actuality hitting him within the face over dropping the love of his life.”
However, Smith denied this when she reacted to her ex’s arrest.
“Though it could seem to be it correlates due to the timeline, I’ve no proof to consider the incident had something to do with the latest marriage announcement,” Smith, 29, instructed the Every day Beast.
On April 19, Wallen broke his silence concerning the chair-throwing incident.
“I didn’t really feel proper publicly checking in till I made amends with some people,” Wallen wrote on X, previously Twitter.
“I’ve touched base with Nashville regulation enforcement, my household, and the nice folks at Chief’s. I’m not pleased with my conduct, and I settle for duty. I’ve the utmost respect for the officers working daily to maintain us all protected. Relating to my tour, there can be no change.”
Following his April arrest, Wallen joked about it at a live performance, telling the gang onstage, “I’m nonetheless just a little rowdy.”
Wallen didn’t take dwelling any awards from the 2024 AMAs.