Lainey Wilson handled a rowdy audience member like a pro. While speaking to Taste of Country, the star singer revealed that during a 2023 concert, she got spit on.
“Last year when we were on our headlining tour—when we were just on a club tour—someone spit on me on stage,” she recalled. “… It was weird. I saw it coming through the air. It was like I made eye contact with the spit. And then it just lands on me and I’m just, like, [strumming my guitar].”
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As for how she felt amid the unsettling experience, Wilson said, “I thought about getting down there and finding whoever it was, but I didn’t. I kept rolling. I just kept rolling.”
The incident left Wilson with more questions than answers, namely—”Why in the world would you buy a ticket and then go spit on somebody?”
“There’s some mean people in the world,” she said, before offering some grace to the person in question. “They could’ve just been drunk and just being silly.”
Lainey Wilson’s Career Has Skyrocketed
This year’s most-nominated female artist at the 2024 CMA Awards, the “Hang Tight Honey” singer has come a long way in her career in recent years.
When she appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to promote her latest album, Whirlwind, Wilson recalled her first-ever performance venues, one of which was the aisles of Walmart.
“I would play anywhere they would let me play,” she said. “I’m talking about nursing homes, flatbed trailers. Anywhere that… my parents would be like, ‘Hey Lainey, sing that song you just wrote last week’ for anybody. And I’d just do it.”
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