Morgan Wallen has become the bad boy of country music after facing a series of scandals throughout his career.
The “Whiskey Glasses” singer got his start on season 6 of The Voice in 2014, where he was a member of Adam Levine’s team but got knocked out during the playoffs. Two years after his appearance on the singing competition, he signed a deal with Big Loud Records.
As Wallen started to gain success and praise in the music industry, he was arrested outside Kid Rock’s Nashville bar, Big Honky Tonk, for public intoxication and disorderly conduct in May 2020. He was later cleared of the charges.
The drama continued later that year when Wallen was caught partying without a face mask and kissing multiple women at college bars in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021, Wallen sparked controversy again after TMZ published a video of him saying the N-word in February 2021.
“I’m embarrassed and sorry. I used an unacceptable and inappropriate racial slur that I wish I could take back,” he said in a statement at the time. “There are no excuses to use this type of language, ever. I want to sincerely apologize for using the word. I promise to do better.”
Keep scrolling to see Wallen’s ups and downs over the years: