Maren Morris said that her infant son faced death threats after the singer criticized Morgan Wallen over his infamous use of a racial slur in 2021, with Morris opening up about the experience this week on Sophia Bush’s Work in Progress Podcast. “The death threat portion for me as a young mother was, yeah, obviously scary,” she told Bush. “And it wasn’t death threats against me, it was against my son, too.
It’s like ‘oh wow, now we’re involving the kids, the ones you cared so much about.’ It’s incredibly dangerous and scary, you open up a whole can of worms of crazy people and pundits that kickbox the hell out of you.” Wallen was caught saying the n-word on video in 2021, causing an avalanche of backlash from the general public as well as the music industry.
“It actually IS representative of our town because this isn’t his first ‘scuffle’ and he just demolished a huge streaming record last month regardless,” Morris tweeted at the time. “We all know it wasn’t his first time using that word. We keep them rich and protected at all costs with no recourse.
” It actually IS representative of our town because this isn’t his first “scuffle” and he just demolished a huge streaming record last month regardless. We all know it wasn’t his first time using that word. We keep them rich and protected at all costs with no recourse.
Wallen apologized, but the controversy left a lasting impact on his public perception. Still, it didn’t slow his car.