HARDY Nearly Died In Horrific 2022 Bus Crash – “Another Foot, It’d Have Cut My Head Off”

Terrifying.

Nearly three years ago today, on October 2, 2022, HARDY and his crew were involved in a serious accident while traveling on their tour bus last night after leaving a show in Bristol, Tennessee. While traveling along I-40 West to Nashville, the bus, which was reportedly going 70 miles per hour at the time, veered off the highway, flipped multiple times before coming to a rest down in the woods.

Though all four members, including the bus driver who had either an aneurysm or seizure according to HARDY, survived the horrific crash, it was not without its consequences.

Beyond the “TRUCK BED” singer fracturing his back and receiving a major gash on his head as a result of the crash, he’s continued to experience the lasting trauma from that day, which included multiple show cancellations in 2023 due to his struggles with anxiety. In an interview with Sirius XM in 2023, he opened up for the first time about dealing with the aftermath of the crash:

There’s nothing to be ashamed of… What I’ve learned is that anxiety is an emotion. Everybody in this room gets jealous, everybody in this room gets happy, they get sad, and it’s completely okay and not embarrassing at all to get anxious.

It’s part of being a human being. I truly, I feel like this has happened for a reason because I wanna be a voice for people who maybe are afraid to admit, or ashamed to admit, that they go through that shit because it’s really hard and it’s really hard on you.

If you don’t talk about it or get help, it can weigh on you really bad and bad things can happen from that. I think it’s important to feel comfortable to talk about it, because I have it and I have friends that have it, celebrities, that some are vocal, some are not.

It’s something that a lot of people have and a lot of people deal with. It’s okay to talk about.”

Though he’s gone on record plenty of times about the aftermath, HARDY had yet to talk about the horrific events leading up to the nearly fatal crash. That changed today in an interview with Rolling Stone on their Nashville Now podcast.

As Hardy recalls, he was actually listening to Kendrick Lamar while on a FaceTime call with none other than Morgan Wallen when his bus driver pulled over to use the bathroom. Sensing something was wrong with him, the Mississippi native asked him how he was doing before receiving a strange response just minutes before the crash itself occurred.

“I said, ‘You good?’ And he said, ‘yep,’ and I said, ‘How much longer do we have?’ And he said, ‘Yep.’ We got about two more miles down the road, and he had either an aneurysm or seizure while driving and we barreled off the side of the road. The bus flipped over three times.”

After the crash, which knocked all four unconscious, HARDY said he woke up on the ceiling of the bus. Describing the bus as looking like a bomb went off, he’d proceed to get out of it and attempt but fail to wave someone down off the side of the road before finally receiving help more than 30 minutes afterward.

“It went from being a bus to a movie set, like a bomb went off. I crawled out of the front windshield, which was busted open… The bus had gone so far down the hill that you couldn’t see it from the highway. So, all these trucks and cars were flying by and they couldn’t see us. I had a black hoodie with a big white circle on it and all I could think to do is take that hoodie off and try to wave people down. I did that for about 30 minutes and I could not get somebody to stop.”

HARDY would also reveal the most horrifying tidbit of the whole situation. When he woke up, he realized that his head was underneath the top panel of the bus’ long windows. Obviously, this meant that if the bus had slid down even a foot further after the crash, he very well could have been decapitated.

“When I woke up, the bus windows are long… and my head was underneath the top of the panel. If we would have slid another foot, it’d have cut my head off.”

Recalling a moment as traumatic as that could not have been easy.

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