Nation singer Ingrid Andress has relived stepping right into a packed stadium and drunkenly sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” in her first interview since leaving a rehab facility.
The 4-time Grammy nominee’s “worst moment” occurred in mid-July at Main League Baseball’s Residence Run Derby, after which she admitted she was drunk.
“It only took, you know, global humiliation for me to be like ‘this is a problem,’” Andress stated ron “The Viall Files” podcast Thursday.
The songstress, recognized for booze-related hits like “Wishful Drinking” and “Waste of Lime,” admitted to strolling out on the sphere that day “not caring” how her efficiency was going to go.
Within the daring show at Globe Life Area in Arlington, Texas, the vocalist gave a pitchy and slurry rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
“I was so gone that afterward, I thought that I like, kind of nailed it,” the 33-year-old shared.
When the songwriter wakened the next day, it was the primary time she realized there was a major problem.
“I was like ‘okay, this is so unlike me, like, this is not okay,” she recalled.
Earlier than the botched efficiency, the Colorado native stated she was consuming closely for over three months following a sequence of occasions.
“I didn’t realize how much I didn’t let myself process those emotions of grief,” Andress stated, including that her sister moved out of her home, she break up together with her first-ever supervisor and broke up together with her “very serious boyfriend” .
Following the Nationwide Anthem ordeal, Andress launched a press release with out approval from her staff.
“I’m not gonna bulls–t y’all, I was drunk last night. I’m checking myself into a facility today to get the help I need,” Andress wrote in a press release on social media on the time.
Hours later, she was in a rehab facility with out her telephone after which spent six months “off the grid” recentering herself in Colorado.
“I’m fine with being America’s punching bag,” she stated, wanting again on the debacle.
Her viral second occurred two days after President Trump was shot within the ear at a rally in Pennsylvania and through a time when Democrats had been calling on former President Biden to drop out of the race.
“For one moment, everybody was united in the fact that I was awful so I feel like I united America in a way,” she quipped.
“You got to see me in my worst moment,” Andress stated. “So now, hopefully everything from here will be great.”
Andress was contacted by different nation music artists, together with Kelsea Ballerini and Elle King, who additionally made waves together with her personal drunken set throughout a live performance honoring Dolly Parton at The Grand Ole Opry.
Andress stepped again into the highlight by releasing a brand new single and efficiently singing the nationwide anthem at a Colorado Avalanche sport on Feb. 28.
