Jason Aldean Opens Up About Coping After Las Vegas Shooting
Jason Aldean is getting candid about the trauma he experienced after the Route 91 Harvest Festival shooting in 2017 in Las Vegas.
The 42-year-old country singer stopped by The Kelly Clarkson Show on Thursday (December 12).
“It’s obviously something that I wouldn’t wish on anybody,” he told host Kelly Clarkson. “I think for us going back to Vegas was something we wanted to do the right way. We didn’t want to go in and try to do it too soon.”
“We felt like there was going to be a lot of people at our show that probably hadn’t been to one of our shows, maybe hadn’t been to a concert at all since that show,” he continued. “If they were going to come back out and that was part of the healing process for them.”
“We wanted to make it a safer environment, something to make them feel safer,” he added about his recent show. “We did Park MGM, a little 5,000 seat arena. The other one was outside, 30,000-40,000 people or whatever it was. This was a little smaller, little more intimate where people can come and hopefully, feel a little more at ease, hopefully, help some of them.”
“We had to get on stage the next week and try to get through all of it,” he recalled about continuing his tour after the shooting. “It was rough, the best thing for me was the fact that my wife was there and went through it, my band was there and went through it, my crew, everybody. We kind of leaned on each other and talked through it, nobody kept it bottled up. If you had a breakdown, you kind of had it in front of everybody and everybody knew what was going on.”
“My wife, we could talk and understood what was going on because she was there,” Jason Aldean shared. “To me that helped more than anything. We’re on the other side of it now. We’re part of the Route 91 family now, so it’s a cool group.”
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Jason Aldean On Coping With Las Vegas Shooting Trauma: ‘I Wouldn’t Wish It On Anybody’
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