{"id":20255,"date":"2021-02-11T04:36:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T09:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=20255"},"modified":"2021-02-11T09:24:50","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T14:24:50","slug":"morgan-wallen-breaks-his-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/02\/morgan-wallen-breaks-his-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Wallen Breaks His Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GB3OII1pZI8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Morgan Wallen broke his silence with a video to fans posted on social media on Wednesday, February 10th which lasted just over five minutes.<\/p>\n<p>He started by saying he was &#8220;long overdue&#8221; to make a statement, and that the video that TMZ showed of him using the N-word was &#8220;me on hour 72 of a 72-hour bender.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Morgan apologized several times and admitted he had let many people down, not the least of whom are his parents and his infant son.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, Morgan said he has been sober for 9 days, and he realizes that alcohol is an issue in his life. He said,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The man in that video is not the man I&#8217;m trying to be.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>During this past week, he has accepted invitations to meet with leaders at various black organizations to gain a greater understanding.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to add to any division.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He ended by asking a favour of his supporters saying,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I appreciate those who still see something in me and have defended me, but for today, please don&#8217;t. I was wrong. It&#8217;s on me to take ownership for this and I fully accept any penalties I&#8217;m facing.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Those penalties include a suspended recording contract, losing the majority of country radio airplay, being dropped by his booking agent, and the Academy of Country Music deeming him ineligible to receive any awards and\/or participate at the upcoming ACM Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Morgan Wallen broke his silence with a 5-minute video to fans posted on social media on Wednesday, February 10th. ","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":20270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[285],"class_list":["post-20255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-morgan-wallen"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 13:22:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/02\/morgan-wallen-breaks-his-silence\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20255"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20268,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20255\/revisions\/20268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}