Country Singer Morgan Wallen Committed to Self-Improvement Following 2024 Bar Incident

Morgan Wallen is making sure he’s not the problem! The namesake single from Morgan’s new album, I’m the Problem, is topping the country charts. But fans won’t find the “Whiskey Glasses” singer celebrating his success at a bar.

“It’s definitely the best thing for me …. I ain’t been in a bar since the last time I was in a bar that everybody knows about,” Morgan recently told host Theo Von on his “This Past Weekend” podcast in April 2025. “That’s the last time I was in a bar.”

That last time was in April 2024, at Chief’s, where Morgan was arrested and charged with reckless endangerment after throwing a chair six stories off the Nashville building’s roof. He pleaded guilty and received two years’ probation as well as seven days in a DUI education center.

Alas, that wasn’t the first time the star ran into trouble at a pub: In May 2020, Morgan was cuffed for public intoxication outside another Nashville watering hole, Kid Rock’s Big Ass Honky Tonk, though the charges were ultimately dropped. Later that same year, his debut Saturday Night Live appearance was canceled after Morgan was recorded breaking pandemic protocols and kissing multiple women outside bars in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. But according to an exclusive Life & Style insider, his most recent arrest was a wake-up call – and he’s trying his best to make sure it’s the last of its kind.

“While Morgan has made some bad decisions in the past, he’s spent the last few months working with his head down and spending time with his family,” the insider exclusively tells Life & Style. “Pals say he’s focusing on being a better man and a good father.”

Indeed, the musician’s 4-year-old son, Indigo (with ex-fiancée KT Smith), is the driving force behind his transformation. “Mostly I can attribute it to being a dad,” Morgan told ET. “Seeing that I have another life that I’m responsible for kind of put things into perspective.”

Many of Morgan’s issues began when he shot to stardom and had trouble adjusting to his newfound fame — which he admits remains a work in progress. “It’s still weird and there’s parts of that that I don’t like,” he said on Theo Von’s podcast. “There’s just things that you don’t do anymore.”

He has found new ways to cope with the attention, though. “I’ve taken up hunting,” Morgan continued. “I can go be with my buddies, I’m [in] the middle of nowhere, I can be at ease, I cannot stress out. ”

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The payoff has been huge, and Morgan’s career seemingly couldn’t be hotter. In addition to the new album, he’s starting a concert tour in June and just launched his own publishing company, Wilder Music.

“A lot of people are counting on him,” says the insider, adding the country crooner isn’t about to let them down. “Morgan will stay true to himself and always be a little bit of a bad boy, but he isn’t willing to throw all his hard work away.”