Maren Morris may not attend the CMA Awards after social media dispute with Jason Aldean’s wife
(CNN) Country music star Maren Morris is nominated for album of the year at the upcoming CMA Awards, but right now she wouldn’t feel “comfortable” attending the November ceremony.
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times published Tuesday, Morris discussed her recent dispute with Brittany and Jason Aldean over comments they made on Instagram about young people receiving gender-affirming care that Morris criticized as transphobic.
“I’m very honored that my record is nominated,” Morris said of her CMA nomination. “But I don’t know if I feel [at] home there right now. So many people I love will be in that room, and maybe I’ll make a game-time decision and go. But as of right now, I don’t feel comfortable going.”
Morris described feeling a need to stand against bigotry in the country music community.
“I hate feeling like I need to be the hall monitor of treating people like human beings in country music,” Morris told the publication. “It’s exhausting. But there’s a very insidious culture of people feeling very comfortable being transphobic and homophobic and racist, and that they can wrap it in a joke and no one will ever call them out for it. It just becomes normal for people to behave like that.”
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