Morgan Wallen’s team is trying to shut down rumors that the country singer recently got “drunk” to play his show in Oxford, Mississippi.
Wallen pulled the plug just minutes before taking the stage last weekend at the University of Mississippi’s Vaught Hemingway Stadium, blaming it on a lost voice.
But an unnamed security guard at the show disputed the excuse, claiming the “Whiskey Glasses” singer was allegedly “too drunk” to perform in a clip that made the rounds on TikTok this week.
“Losing your voice sucks,” the guard told the singer’s fans, later adding that the singer “couldn’t walk” and was taken away in an ambulance.
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BEST Crowd Management, the company that provided security for Sunday’s concert, denied the account, calling its employee’s story “false” in an Instagram story.
“We do not respect the details of his statement,” noted BEST Crowd Management.
Seth England, CEO of Wallen’s Big Loud Record label, thanked the company for correcting the record in his own message, reported by People.
″[The employee] made up an entire story that wasn’t very true,” the music executive wrote. “Every detail was false.”
England rejected the claim, calling it “ridiculous what some people will just say in reaction”.
Fans had already filled the stadium when they learned Wallen would not be playing.
She explained what happened on her Instagram story shortly after, telling followers: ‘After the show last night I started to lose my voice so I spent the day resting, talking to the my doctor and doing my vocal exercises to try to get better.”
He added: “I really thought I would be able to go on stage, and it kills me to offer it so close to stage time, but my voice is shot and I’m unable to sing.”
Wallen has bounced back from controversy before.
The “Wasted On You” singer was briefly suspended from his label after using a racial slur in a February 2021 video.
He issued a public apology and a week later, his album “Dangerous: The Double Album” topped the country charts.
