Jelly Roll was ‘so nervous’ at the CMAs, the singer shattered his award
nypost.comJelly Roll’s CMA award was beautifully broken, just like his new album of the same name. The country music star, 39, told Jimmy Fallon Monday night about how, after becoming one of the oldest people to ever win new artist of the year at the awards show in Nashville last year, he immediately “fumbled” the glass award.
Fallon then played a clip of the sound of shattering glass during a live local broadcast from backstage at the show.“Oh goodness, Jelly Roll just broke his award,” WKRN-TV reporter Stephanie Langston can be heard telling another reporter. “Yeah, he’s still standing there.
I’m pretty sure it’s his award. He just dropped it on the floor.”“First of all, when it first dropped, you could’ve heard a mouse pee on cotton,” Jelly Roll told Fallon. “I mean, it was dead silent, and right after you could’ve heard a cricket fart, you heard a bunch of people go ‘Aww.’”He explained that the weight of the award and his sweaty palms likely played a role in the unfortunate incident. “I was just so excited and so nervous that I had the sweatiest, shakiest palms,” he said. “And that thing is — I’m already not a physically fit man — and that thing’s heavy.
That thing was really heavy.“And I was so excited, and I was going to change it from one hand to the other to shake somebody’s hand, and it just boomed,” he said. “And I was like — this is the story of my life though, Jimmy.
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