Kelsea Ballerini recently found out that a young girl named Avery was using her song, “This Time Last Year”, as the “anthem” for her battle with cancer.<\/p>\n
Avery’s mom reached out to Kelsea through TikTok.<\/p>\n
[tiktok url=”https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@hfamx5\/video\/7473522531312405802″]<\/p>\n
When Kelsea caught wind of it, she wrote a response.<\/p>\n
“Sending you so much light and love and strength . . . I’m having the team reach out to set you up [with tickets] for Kansas City . . . if our girl is feeling good enough [to go].”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
[tiktok url=”https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@hfamx5\/video\/7473633885641919787″]<\/p>\n
The show in Kansas City is on April 1st.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kelsea Ballerini Sent a Message to a Young Fan Battling Cancer","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":31007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[1442,7935,3356,9432],"class_list":["post-31419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-cancer","tag-fan","tag-kelsea-ballerini","tag-this-time-last-year"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 11:20:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/02\/kelsea-ballerini-reaches-out-to-young-fan-battling-cancer\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}