Lainey Wilson admitted she almost walked away from "Yellowstone" before she even got the gig. The 30-year-old country star revealed she was "on top of the world" professionally while also "going through it" with family matters at the same time Taylor Sheridan was expecting a confirmation she would portray Abby on the hit show.
Wilson's father was having health issues, and she was afraid of committing to the show without knowing what the next steps would be for their family. "Professionally, I felt like, man, I'm in the best spot that I've ever been in.
I've been in Nashville for 12 years trying to do this thing," she said while chatting on an episode of "Dutton Rules: A Yellowstone 1923 podcast." "I felt like I was on top of the world when it came to opportunities, but personally, man, me and my family, we were going, we were really, really going through it." Wilson's father, Brian, suffered a stroke and also had his left eye removed due to a fungal infection. "In the middle of filming of ‘Yellowstone,’ my daddy was in the hospital.
And he was in ICU," she said. "He spent two months in ICU in Houston, fighting for his life.The doctors told us he's not gonna make it, there's a big chance he's not gonna make it." She took a break from filming on the ranch in Montana to visit him and remembered being by his bedside one day in Houston. "He woke up just in time before I had really made up my mind, and he said, 'I don't care if it was my funeral.
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