“It got pretty dark. I’m a resilient person, and I’m a happy person in general. But that was a difficult time. We tried to keep my sights set on better things. I felt if we just stayed true to who I knew I really was, we would come out all right.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
He’s now selling albums and concert tickets while making time to focus on the important things, like family.<\/p>\n
“I think I’m happy as I’ve ever been. I’ve had a lot of success, which doesn’t hurt when it comes to that. I’m in a really good place mentally. I got my little boy [Indigo Wilder], I got my family. Everything is good for me right now. Gratitude is at the top of my vocabulary.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Morgan Wallen’s life the past couple of years has been eventful, to say the least.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":18321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[616,2175,171,2711],"class_list":["post-20279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-family","tag-happy","tag-morgan-wallen","tag-racial-slur"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 03:33:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2022\/07\/morgan-wallen-is-as-happy-as-hes-ever-been\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20280,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20279\/revisions\/20280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}