Singer explains his qualms with celebrity just days after his abrupt Saturday Night Live exit
It’s been almost a week since Morgan Wallen abruptly exited the stage during closing credits at Saturday Night Live and soon after posted a photo of a plane with the caption: “Get me to God’s country.” The exact location of where God’s country is remains unknown, but the country musician’s recent appearance on Theo Von’s Last Weekend podcast suggests it might be in the middle of the woods, or anywhere else he can go hunting as a means of escaping from celebrity.
“There’s parts of that that I don’t like, I mean I think anybody who has to deal with that — it’s not ideal,” Wallen said about being famous. “It’s not ideal to go everywhere and even if you don’t get bothered, you were on edge the whole time because you thought you might. There’s things that you just don’t do anymore.” He explained that avoiding those scenarios has pushed him to spend more time hunting “in the middle of nowhere” with friends. “I can be at ease, I can not stress out,” he said. “You just find ways to supplement.”
He doesn’t seem to have many options outside of God’s country. Wallen claims he hasn’t been in a bar since last year, when he was booked on three felony counts of reckless endangerment and one disorderly conduct misdemeanor for throwing a chair off the roof of Eric Church’s Nashville bar. He did open his own bar, called This Bar, in Nashville a few months later, after a series of delays related to the chair incident and his past use of racial slurs.
“I mean, if you’re using a bar as a specific example, that’s definitely the best thing for me,” Wallen said. “I ain’t been in a bar since the last time I was in a bar that everybody knows about. The most public time I was in a bar last was the last time I was in a bar.”
