Morgan Wallen
The latest in a spate of public problems for the hot-shot country music artist, Morgan Wallen, was taken into jail early on Monday morning after reportedly tossing a chair from the sixth-floor roof of a downtown Nashville bar and performance venue.
The 30-year-old chart-topper Wallen is charged with three felonies of reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct, according to Nashville police, who shared a smiling picture of Wallen on X. Two police officers were not far away when the chair fell into the Broadway strip.
According to an arrest report acquired by WTVF, officers looked at footage that showed Wallen “lunging and throwing an object over the roof” of Chief’s bar, a brand-new honky tonk in Nashville’s entertainment district. Witnesses claimed to have seen him laughing following the event.
In a brief statement, Wallen’s lawyer Worrick Robinson stated that his client “is cooperating fully with authorities.”
Eric Church, a fellow country music artist and Wallen’s friend, launched Chief’s, which opened last week. (Wallen intends to launch his own downtown Nashville pub later this year; it’s just a few blocks away.) Recently, Church and Wallen entered the business world together when they joined together to purchase the retail brand Field & Stream and revive the print magazine.
Over the past several years, Wallen’s fame has skyrocketed, as evidenced by the success of her songs “One Thing at a Time” (2023) and “Dangerous” (2021), which both topped Billboard charts and established records. However, he has experienced a number of high-profile incidents alongside his climb.
In 2020, he was arrested for disorderly conduct at a separate pub in Nashville. After that, Wallen apologized to the public and shared a picture of himself grinning with Kid Rock, the proprietor of the establishment.
After social media footage of him partying in the early months of the coronavirus epidemic sans a mask surfaced, Wallen issued another apology. This event momentarily interfered with his preparations to appear on “Saturday Night Live.”
Morgan Wallen is from where?
Sneedville, a tiny community in Tennessee’s Hancock County and about 70 miles northeast of Knoxville, is where Morgan was born.
The artist declared in February that he intended to launch “This Bar,” a six-story bar located along Lower Broadway. The song’s title is taken from Wallen’s 2019 song, “I found myself in this bar / Making mistakes and making new friends.”
Wallen’s most recent album, “One Thing at a Time,” generated the Hot 100 No. 1 single “Last Night” and reached at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 list.
Wallen previously criticized for video of him saying racial slur
Wallen has been under fire for his public behavior prior to his arrest.
In February 2021, Wallen issued an apology following the rapid outcry from the music business following the release of a video purportedly showing him using a racial slur in Nashville.
Wallen referred to what is shown in the film as “hour 72 of 72 of a bender” in a YouTube video.
“Obviously, the natural thing to do is to apologize further and just continue to apologize but because you got caught and that’s not what I wanted to do,” the performer stated in the clip. “I disappointed a lot of people. … those who are very important to me and generous with their gifts. And that’s simply unfair.
