{"id":43927,"date":"2025-05-16T10:30:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T14:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=43927"},"modified":"2025-05-16T07:07:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T11:07:31","slug":"eric-church-on-the-morgan-wallen-chair-throwing-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/05\/eric-church-on-the-morgan-wallen-chair-throwing-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Church On The Morgan Wallen Chair-Throwing Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/music\/story\/2025-05-02\/eric-church-evangeline-vs-the-machine-stagecoach-2025-paul-mccartney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In a new interview with The Los Angeles Times,<\/a> Eric Church disclosed that Morgan Wallen reached out to him after the infamous chair-throwing incident at Church&#8217;s Nashville bar in April 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Church described the arrest as a turning point for Wallen and expressed pride in the young country superstar\u2019s response to the situation while noting that the incident served as a positive catalyst for Morgan&#8217;s personal growth.<\/p>\n<p>He said Wallen called him from the street immediately following the incident, and eventually came into the bar to personally apologize to the staff.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI think that was a line for him, and he\u2019s done really well since then \u2014 it was a thing he\u2019s reacted positively to as a person. I used the old Billy Joe Shaver line on him: \u2018I\u2019m just an old chunk of coal, but I\u2019ll be a diamond one day.\u2019&#8230; I was proud of him.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wallen is set to release his new album, I\u2019m the Problem, on May 16, which features a collaboration with Church on the song \u201cNumber 3 and Number 7.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5V9l6v9peVw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eric Church Reveals That Morgan Wallen Called Him After Chair-Throwing Incident","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":43212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[5663,59,6115,1958,285,30,6278],"class_list":["post-43927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-chair-throwing","tag-eric-church","tag-im-the-problem","tag-la-times","tag-morgan-wallen","tag-nashville","tag-number-3-and-number-7"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 21:14:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/05\/eric-church-on-the-morgan-wallen-chair-throwing-incident\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43927","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=43927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43928,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43927\/revisions\/43928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}