What Happened to Gretchen Wilson? The Country Singer Was Arrested
What happened to Gretchen Wilson? The Grammy-winning country artist's arrest in 2018 interrupted her comeback.
Back in 2005, country tune had its eyes trained on Gretchen Wilson. The "Redneck Woman" singer had just gained a Grammy for Best Female Country Vocal Performance and was signed to a record label that planned on making her the subsequent Shania Twain.
But following the free up of her third studio album, "One of the Boys," in 2007, Gretchen’s profession started to stall as she took an increasing number of time to put out new song. Add in a few felony troubles and the 47-year-old had one helluva disappointing decade.
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What happened to Gretchen Wilson?
While doing press for her last album, 2017’s "Ready to Get Rowdy," the songwriter admitted that she couldn’t maintain the pressures of status coupled with the tasks of being a single mother.
"I spent my whole life looking for that moment, but as prepared as I thought I was, I wasn’t. It happened so fast," Gretchen instructed The Boot of her debut file’s mid-'00s luck. "There was one trip that, I think, we crossed the International Date Line three times in a week-and-a-half. I didn’t know what day it was."
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In 2013, Gretchen made up our minds to take some time off. "How fortunate am I? Not too many people get to go, 'I’m going to stay home with my kid for two years,'" the Illinois native famous. "But that time gave me the want-to to get creative, too… It gave me time to think."
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Gretchen printed that she was excited but nervous to start performing again. "You go back to doing anything that you haven’t done in a while, you get a little nervous, you get a little scared. But, I’m craving the live show," she shared.
"I’ve missed that a lot, more than I think I know. I’ve missed being onstage and just feeling the excitement from the crowd and hearing them sing my words back to me," she added. "It’s the greatest high on Earth. It’s a lot of emotions; it’s a lot of different feelings all balled into one."
Gretchen was arrested in 2018 over a dispute on an plane.
The CMA Award winner’s comeback hit an important snag in August 2018 when she was taken into police custody following an altercation on a commercial flight from D.C. to Connecticut.
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According to TMZ, Gretchen shoved a fellow passenger after they beat her to the toilet. Throughout the remainder of the flight, the pair made threatening hand gestures from side to side, main the group to request that safety meet them at the gate.
Gretchen was reportedly arrested upon getting belligerent with law enforcement. She was charged with breach of peace and her bond was set at $1,000. "I'm saddened by the whole thing," she confessed in an interview with Taste of Country following the incident.
"I'm embarrassed that that situation got to where it was… It's been really frustrating for me not to be able to talk about it, because people who know me know that I just wanna get it straight," she explained. "I'm reading all of these headlines and am like, 'Oh gosh, it's so wrong. It's all so wrong!'"
Here’s hoping that Gretchen used this time clear of the spotlight to pen some new kickass song.
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