Ella Langley recently opened up about several surgeries she underwent as a kid, and then she really opened up.
The “Choosin’ Texas” singer had previously said she had a tonsillectomy in 2019. That was one of of the Ella Langley Facts featured in a recent Secret History of Ella Langley video.
This new confession is unrelated. Talking to Theo Von, Langley shared details.
- Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” is currently the No. 1 song on Billboard‘s all-genre Hot 100 chart.
- Her new Dandelion album drops on Friday.
- Her appearance on This Past Weekend with Theo Von dropped on Monday (April 7).
Related: Watch Ella Langley’s Star-Studded “Choosin’ Texas” Music Video
“I had a bunch of eye surgeries when I was young, for the muscles in my eyes. Sometimes I’d be a little cross-eyed,” she says.
Later she forwards a comparison someone from her surgery team shared that relates her two eyes to horses pulling a carriage. “They’ve gotta learn to work together and mine just never did,” she says.
The vivid (to say the least) part came a few seconds earlier after she admitted the most recent of these surgeries happened two or three years ago.
“It’s kind of brutal honestly,” Langley says. “They had to take your eyeballs out.”
Take a second to let that sink in! Von did. It doesn’t sound like Langley’s exaggerating either. Without more details it’s hard to pin down the exact nature of her surgery but somewhere out there is a doctor who’s hovered over an eyeless country hitmaker.
The full interview including a few more revelations about Langley, including how hard she fought to keep “You Look Like You Love Me” exactly the way you hear it, and that her graduating class had only 32 kids. The conversational nature of the podcast leads to plenty of stories from Von’s life as well.
Taste of Country is planning a full review of Dandelion for Friday.
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As a breakout artist, having one massive hit is sort of a mixed blessing. So it is with Ella Langley and “You Look Like You Love Me,” a Riley Green duet that was a monster country radio hit in 2024.
It’s a great song, but fans are doing themselves a disservice if they don’t dig further. In fact, the very top song on this list is another — way underrated — track. Keep reading to see which one it is!
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