Eric Church Says Morgan Wallen Has A Great Heart: “I Would Trust Him With My Kids”

Vouching for his friend.

Obviously Morgan Wallen is one of the most polarizing figures in country music. He’s probably the biggest name in country music, and arguably in all of music, right now. But he’s often found himself at the center of controversy (many times of his own making) which has earned him his fair share of detractors along the way.

There was, of course, the racial slur controversy a couple years ago. And more recently, there was his arrest for throwing a chair off the rooftop of Eric Church’s downtown Nashville bar, Chief’s.

It’s to the point that every move Morgan makes is scrutinized, and he’s rarely given the benefit of the doubt: Remember the weeklong chatter about his SNL exit recently?

But Eric Church knows Morgan better than any of those who bash him online. Not only have they become close friends, they’re also business partners after having bought the iconic outdoors brand Field & Stream together last year. And Church says that one of the things he appreciates most about Wallen is his ability to recognize his own faults:

“I have a lot of acquaintances in the industry. I don’t have a lot of people that are friends. And what I’ve always loved about Morgan, and I could say the same thing about Jelly Roll, is their unabashed honesty about their flaws and their humanity.

When he screws up, sometimes just even privately, he owns it. There’s that vulnerability of “I’m flawed and I’m sorry and I screwed up.” There’s something about that that is wholesome.

I think we hide so much, especially being in the commercial music business — show business — you try to fabricate what you are. And most of those people that I know that fabricate that aren’t that, but that’s what their story is. And the whole time, they’re trying to sell the public that “This is who I am.””

And he says that after getting to know Morgan, he knows what a good person he really is:

“I say this to everyone: I know the guy. And once you know the guy, it’s a lot easier to be able to know the heart of that guy and to know where his moral compass is. And he’s got a great one.”

Church says that he knows what Morgan’s going through as a young artist experiencing superstardom for the first time. And he also pays Morgan the highest compliment a parent can pay to someone else:

“I remember when things took off for [me], and it’s nowhere near the way it took off for him, but that’s a really weird time. It can be really hard to deal with. We talked about a lot of that, and the shortest answer is, I would trust him with my kids.”

Of course you’re never going to be able to convince some people, who are going to hate him no matter what because of his past actions or his perceived politics or simply because they don’t like his music.

But I’m more willing to trust someone who actually knows Morgan and has spent time with him than some random on the internet who screams “racist” every time he’s mentioned.The post Eric Church Says Morgan Wallen Has A Great Heart: “I Would Trust Him With My Kids” first appeared on Whiskey Riff.