Maren Morris Shows Up To 2022 CMA Awards After Saying She Might Not Attend

Maren Morris showed up to the 2022 Country Music Association Awards connected Nov. 9 looking perfectly stunning. The state singer, who was nominated for Album of the Year astatine the event, skipped the reddish carpet astatine the event. However, she was wrong the arena for the awards ceremony. Although she didn’t triumph successful her class — the grant went to Luke Combs — she was determination to observe the vocalist and ticker the performances passim the night.

Maren Morris astatine the CMA Awards. (ABC)

Maren’s quality astatine the CMA Awards was not publically confirmed earlier the show. In fact, backmost successful September, she admitted she was adjacent thinking astir skipping the lawsuit altogether. The information came pursuing her nationalist feud with chap state singer, Jason Aldean’s, wife, Brittany Aldean, which started erstwhile Brittany made a transphobic remark connected Instagram. Maren clapped backmost astatine the erstwhile American Idol contestant, tweeting, “It’s truthful casual to, like, not beryllium a scumbag human? Sell your clip-ins and zip it, Insurrection Barbie.”

In her September interrogation with the Los Angeles Times, Maren explained wherefore the feud near her feeling unsure astir going to the CMAs. “I’m precise honored that my grounds is nominated, but I don’t cognize if I consciousness astatine location determination close now,” she admitted. “So galore radical I emotion volition beryllium successful that room, and possibly I’ll marque a game-time determination and go. But arsenic of close now, I don’t consciousness comfy going.”

Brittany has stood by her ignorant Instagram post, which was a video of herself doing her constitution with the caption, “I’d truly similar to convey my parents for not changing my sex erstwhile I went done my tomboy phase. I emotion this girly life.” She appeared on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News speech amusement successful September to support herself. “I’m advocating for children,” she insisted. “I deliberation that children should not beryllium allowed to marque these life-changing decisions astatine specified a young age. They are not mature enough; they should person parents who emotion and advocator for them, regardless.” She besides said that she “never thought determination was thing wrong” with the connection she made.

During the interview, Maren was branded arsenic a “Lunatic Country Music Person” on-screen. The state vocalist decided to usage this diss to her advantage, though, by creating t-shirts with the slogan emblazoned connected the front. She past sold the shirts to fans, with proceeds going to GLAAD’s Transgender Media Program and the Trans Lifeline.