So maybe Kacey Musgraves hasn’t totally quit smoking weed.
The 36-year-old country star sang about “getting rid” of certain habits in her 2024 track “Deeper Well,” and later said in an interview that weed was “not for this chapter” of her life.
But now, she’s clarifying her stance.
“Um, I never said I don’t ever partake,” Musgraves tells the Hollywood Reporter in a new feature interview, “I just don’t wake up and hit a gravity bong the size of my face anymore, which is what I did for a long time.”
“But, hey, more power to whatever suits you,” she adds.
In her 2013 country-controversial hit song “Follow Your Arrow,” the country star urged listeners to “kiss lots of boys, or kiss lots of girls” and “roll up a joint, or don’t.”
The song’s referencing to homosexuality and cannabis sparked controversy among the country music scene’s more conservative circles.
“Oh my gosh, it was so controversial. I was told not to [release the song] and all these reasons why,” Musgraves recalls.
“It ended up tanking — it was banned by country radio. But I would never trade that for the love and the people it brought to my world.”
“I’m not going to present a watered-down version of myself to be accepted. I’ll f–king shovel s–t for a living at a horse barn, and I’ll be really happy,” the star admits. “Or I’ll just be a songwriter. Anyway, it ended up working out.”
Last year, Musgraves told The Cut that she was leaving her stoner persona behind.
She quipped: “It’s not for this chapter. Maybe later, when I’m a 60-year-old lady with nothing to do and I’m just doing pottery all day, maybe. We’ll see.”
The “Rainbow” hitmaker also reflects on the fallout of her divorce 2020 divorce from singer Ruston Kelly and subsequent romance with now-ex boyfriend Cole Shafer, which she shared a lot of on Instagram.
“I don’t regret living and loving as hard as I do. Whenever I’m in a relationship, I’m all f–king in,” she admits.
“I think that hesitancy breeds hesitancy, and if you go in with something with one foot, it’s going to fail,” Musgraves continues. “After divorce, it’s like on one hand, I do want to self-protect, but at the same time, if your heart is feeling open, I think you have to just show up for it. I’m still trying to figure out the balance of that.”
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