Morgan Wallen has broken his silence following his arrest in Nashville early this month, and he returned to the stage this past week, too.
The country music star reportedly performed 25 songs during his concert stop in Oxford, Mississippi last week and he referenced his current troubles.
“I got this set up here behind me, these flags are from my high school, and it represents something,” he reportedly said. “I had a coach, I played baseball, his name was Coach Davidson.”
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That’s when Wallen said that he almost got kicked off the team when he was a junior.
“I was a ‘lil rowdy back then,” he said. “I guess I’m still a little rowdy now.”
This came after Wallen checked in on social media on April 19 with a statement.
“I didn’t feel right publicly checking in until I made amends with some folks,” he wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “I’ve touched base with Nashville law enforcement, my family, and the good people at Chief’s. I’m not proud of my behavior, and I accept responsibility.
“I have the utmost respect for the officers working every day to keep us all safe,” he added. “Regarding my tour, there will be no change.”
While he may have joked about his situation some during that first concert back, it looks like the charges Wallen is facing are no laughing matter.
Wallen, one of country music’s brightest stars, is reportedly facing three felony charges following an incident at fellow country music star Eric Church’s bar.
Nashville police say they were standing in front of Chief’s Bar on Broadway when a chair fell from the roof, six stories above, and landed just feet away from them.
They said staff at the bar told them Wallen threw the chair from the sixth floor, and that a review of video showed the singer throwing something off the roof. Police said witnesses said Wallen was laughing after they say he threw the chair off the building.
He was reportedly charged with disorderly conduct, danger to the public and three counts of reckless endangerment.
Per the PEOPLE report, because the chair landed so close to the officers and because of Wallen’s fame, his case is complicated. It reported that each of his felony charges “Could carry one to two years in prison.”
That means he could face up to six years, but criminal defense attorney David Raybin told PEOPLE the chances he serves those sentences consecutively are remote.
“It’s based on prior record and extreme dangerousness of the offense: professional, criminal, sex offense,” he told PEOPLE. “Generally speaking, this would not be consecutive.”
Raybin told PEOPLE the obvious, though.
This is a serious deal for Wallen.
“It’s probably a maximum of two years assuming he was not put on probation,” he said.
The danger to the officers does not work in his favor, either, Raybin said.
“That chair could have fallen on them, and they could have been killed,” he told PEOPLE.
“The question is going to be, because he’s a celebrity, should he be treated differently, either too lightly or too harshly?” he added.
Raybin said Wallen could also face “split confinement.”
“Which is some modest amount of incarceration to say, ‘This is just wrong,’ and then the rest on probation,” he said. “I don’t see him going to jail for two years, but I don’t see him getting a completely probated sentence either.
“This is a really serious thing,” he added. “It’s the risk that’s punishable, not actually what happened.”