We last discussed country music star Morgan Wallen in February 2021, while most people were still social distancing because the Covid vaccines were not widely available. Wallen went out for a drunken night on the town, in Nashville, with some of his good ‘ol boy bros. They got sh-thoused and rowdy, and made their way back to Wallen’s home. In the middle of the night, they started screaming at each other outside of Wallen’s home, and one of his neighbor’s recorded Wallen yelling at one of his friends and calling the guy the n-word. What happened next was surprising in several different ways – Wallen was widely condemned by country music’s gatekeepers and elder statesmen, his music was pulled from country music radio stations and Wallen quickly gave a thorough apology where he promised to use this incident to educate himself. He also asked his fans to stop defending him, that what he said was indefensible.
Well, Wallen largely weathered the storm. His apology worked, his career rebounded quickly, and he’s continued to be a very successful country star, although I still cannot name one of his songs. From what I gather, the February 2021 incident was not the first or the last problematic incident for Wallen, but he has not been publicly caught saying racist sh-t again (fingers crossed). That being said, that man just got arrested and charged with multiple crimes because of a particularly drunken night out in Nashville.
The country singer Morgan Wallen was arrested early Monday in Nashville on charges of reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct, after he was accused of throwing a chair from the roof of a downtown bar, according to reports. Mr. Wallen, 30, a superstar who had last year’s most popular album, and who had just opened his latest tour with two shows at a stadium in Indianapolis, was arrested and booked by police in Nashville, according to court records.
WTVF, a CBS television affiliate in Nashville, reported that Mr. Wallen is accused of throwing a chair from the sixth story of Chief’s, an establishment on lower Broadway — an area of the city full of honky-tonks and concert venues — that had just been opened by another country star, Eric Church. The chair hit the ground near where some police officers were standing, and staff members at the restaurant told officers that Mr. Wallen had been responsible, the station reported, citing the police.
Mr. Wallen was arrested on three counts of reckless endangerment, a felony; and one count of disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor. He was released early Monday and has a court date set for May 3. In a statement, Worrick Robinson, a lawyer for Mr. Wallen, said: “Morgan Wallen was arrested in downtown Nashville for reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct. He is cooperating fully with authorities.”
This sounds less like Johnny Cash and more like Biffington Von Wasp misbehaving at a frat party. Yes, someone could have been seriously hurt and Wallen should be incredibly grateful that he avoided killing, hurting or maiming anyone when he threw the chair. I absolutely wonder about the circumstances around this and whether that contributed to what Wallen was charged with. Because it sounds like there was possibly a brawl or something else was happening (apparently, his ex just eloped and he was in his feelings about that, but is that it?). It’s not like Wallen was just having a cocktail and he decided to simply throw a chair off a roof for the hell of it. Bonkers. Anyway, if Morgan Wallen wasn’t canceled for saying the n-word, he probably won’t be canceled for reckless endangerment.
Beyoncé with the #1 album and Morgan Wallen arrested for a felony pic.twitter.com/td4vNdrUmA
— j (@jinagarten) April 8, 2024
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.
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- LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, USA – SEPTEMBER 23: Morgan Wallen poses in the press room at the 2022 iHeartRadio Music Festival – Night 1 held at the T-Mobile Arena on September 23, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.,Image: 725774165, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Pictured: Morgan Wallen, Credit line: Xavier Collin / Image Press Agency / Avalon
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- LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, USA – SEPTEMBER 23: Morgan Wallen poses in the press room at the 2022 iHeartRadio Music Festival – Night 1 held at the T-Mobile Arena on September 23, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.,Image: 725774219, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Pictured: Morgan Wallen, Credit line: Xavier Collin / Image Press Agency / Avalon
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- LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, USA – SEPTEMBER 23: Morgan Wallen poses in the press room at the 2022 iHeartRadio Music Festival – Night 1 held at the T-Mobile Arena on September 23, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.,Image: 725774231, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Pictured: Morgan Wallen, Credit line: Xavier Collin / Image Press Agency / Avalon
It’s all fun and games until someone has a skull fracture. Rehab is a wonderful thing.
This guy is a disaster and he doesn’t have to be in his feelings to do this shit. I have a friend on Broadway who said he threw a shot glass from the second floor into a crowded dance floor before he even started drinking for the night. Clearly he’s escalated. He’s had so many instances like this in Nashville what haven’t made the news nationally and then there’s the stuff that has, like how he got so drunk right before an Alabama or Mississippi show (can’t remember where) that his security guard how to carry him out and he had to get his stomach pumped. Right before he was about to go on stage. That N word incident was not a one off and he should have stayed canceled. I hope they don’t let him plead out this time.
Rehab really is a wonderful thing.
Also, many moons ago, I partied a lot with a lot of frat boys and other bro-types on Broadway in Nashville, and no one ever threw a chair (or anything) at cops.
Actually, it does sound like Johnny Cash. You might want to google “Johnny Cash and drunken incidents”. He was banned from the Grand Ole Opry at one time for drunkenness.
Yes, people forget. Good reminder.
Yes, he takes after Mr. Cash by sharing an addiction. But Morgan is no Johnny Cash.
Not sure about all his fans, but a good portion of them at his Indianapolis concert a few days ago are trash. Drunken brawls during the concert, multiple arrests.
I once witnessed a flood of fans heading toward Wrigley Field for a Morgan Wallen concert. Almost every single woman was wearing cut-off Jean shorts and cowboy boots. I have never seen so many butt cheeks in my life. Big cheeks, small cheeks, saggy cheeks…I mean, to each their own, but that was very unexpected on a Chicago commute!
Try that in a small town, ya know?
When people tell you who they are, believe them. He’s trash. We’ve known this since 2021.
Yes. I side eye anyone who mentions him in a positive light. He’s only in trouble because it endangered cops, I doubt this is the most dangerous thing he’s done while drunk.
Biffington Von Wasp😂. I don’t know any songs by Wallen but he seems popular in country? That said, the detail that stood out to me was that he was at Eric Church’s bar who I did not know had a bar. Now, I am an Eric Church fan. Him and Chris Stapleton are about the only 2 male country singers I have had time for in the past 15 years😂. If someone tells me he’s a republican I’d be sad. I mean I’m guessing he probably is though.
Cancel him because you know he wasn’t throwing it at the cops.
It’s giving Mel Gibson
Get your racist ass to rehab.
How trashy. He’s 30? Come on. So many problematic aspects to this guy. Yuck.
How can someone so awful make such good music. At least some of his songs are really good.
Thank you, Beyonce, for attempting to rescue an entire genre from asshats like this clown. The same people screaming about Beyoncé give this nub a free pass. I imagine his Daisy Duke wearing 12 to 80 year old fanbase would still line up to see him even if the chair had hit one of the officers whilest chanting some MAGAt cult nonsense. The sheep aren’t who they think are the sheep. Make it make sense….
My BF has experience in the entertainment industry and pointed out that someone like this absolutely has the responsibility to hire people to handle him. He has a history of being reckless and partying hard, and has plenty of resources to pay for a handler to keep him out of big trouble. Instead, he has chosen people that aren’t capable of intervening and enable him. Not blaming them for his actions, but it’s a further criticism of Wallen. If he wanted, he could hire people to make it stop when he goes off the rails. He doesn’t.
I’m thinking he should be responsible enough to handle himself rather than pay someone to act as his babysitter/handler for when he decides he’s gonna get smashed and, inevitably, goes off the rails. Mature thyself, Hee Haw.