For the second 12 months working, Entertainer of the 12 months nominee Morgan Wallen has sat out the CMA Awards.
The I am the Downside singer was nowhere to be seen because the 2025 awards present received began. He was not listed to carry out or current, however was nonetheless nominated for 3 awards.
Main as much as the awards present, Wallen’s shut buddy and frequent collaborator Ernest shed some gentle on why the singer is skipping awards exhibits.
In dialog with Style of Nation, Ernest named Lainey Wilson as his decide for Entertainer of the 12 months, after which stated Wallen would not thoughts him saying that.
“He do not give a s**t. Since when is Morgan giving a s**t?” Ernest requested.
“Who’s making more cash doing this than Morgan Wallen?” he identified. “He does not give a f**okay about this award. I would not both, if I used to be Morgan Wallen.”
Earlier this month, Wallen was a shock visitor at Ella Langley’s Ryman Auditorium present in downtown Nashville. He cracked a joke about skipping the CMAs, saying it “takes much more than an awards present to get me out to Broadway lately”.
Wallen didn’t attend final 12 months’s present. He was additionally absent from the 2021 CMAs after he was banned from attending after being embroiled in a racial slur scandal.
“I am embarrassed and sorry. I used an unacceptable and inappropriate racial slur that I want I may take again,” Wallen stated in an announcement given to ET on the time. “There are not any excuses to make use of any such language, ever. I need to sincerely apologise for utilizing the phrase. I promise to do higher.”
