In his first interview with a news outlet since his racial-slur scandal broke six months ago, country superstar Morgan Wallen told “Good Morning America” co-host Michael Strahan that hi…
” co-host Michael Strahan that his use of the N-word was the result of being in a drunken climate with friends where they “say dumb stuff together,” and was not meant “in any derogatory manner at all.” He said that in the wake of the furor, he spent 30 days in rehab and has donated $500,000 to Black charities.
Wallen only cited the Black Music Action Coalition as a recipient of his donations. Earlier in the segment, he said that the BMAC was one of the Black people or organizations he met with after the scandal broke, also mentioning 300 Entertainment CO Kevin Liles; Eric Hutcherson, Universal Music Group’s executive VP, chief people and inclusion officer; and gospel star BeBe Winans.
Strahan played Black country star Mickey Guyton’s “Black Like Me” during the segment and quoted her contention that Wallen’s slur was indicative of where people of color stand in the country music world. Asked by the host if country music has a race problem, Wallen answered, “It would seem that way, yeah. I haven’t really sat and thought about that.”
Asked by the host how something like the incident captured on tape by TMZ could “just happen,” Wallen said, “”I don’t think it just happened. I was around some of my friends, and we say dumb stuff together. in our minds, it’s playful. That sounds ignorant, but that’s really where it came from … and it’s wrong.” He noted, “I had some of my longtime friends in town. We had kind of been partying all weekend and we figured we would go hard for the two or three days that they were there.
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