Maren Morris is speaking out after a fan groped her during a recent meet and greet. Morris shares what happened on social media, vowing not to stop meeting her fans because of the gross and inappropriate actions of one person.
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"Hi y'all. Tonight's show was so fun, but someone grabbed my a** during [the] meet-and-greet before the show," Morris shares on her Instagram Stories (via Us Weekly). "I'm going to continue them because one person shouldn't ruin it for everyone."
"Please know I'm there to connect, share, hug [and] all the things," she adds. "But, please don't override someone's personal space. Love you."
Maren Morris Goes From Country To Pop Music - Sort Of
Maren Morris made headlines in 2023, when she insinuated she was leaving country music. At the time, Morris expressed her dissatisfaction with the genre.
"I thought I'd like to burn it to the ground and start over," Morris tells the LA Times. "But it's burning itself down without my help."
Later, Morris said it wasn't that she didn't want to be in ountry music, but that there were parts of it she no longer wanted to be a part of.
"I don't want to say goodbye, but I really cannot participate in the really toxic arms of this institution anymore," she says on the The New York Times' Popcast podcast.
Indeed, Morris' latest Dreamsicle album does sound very, very pop. But even amid its elements of another genre, the Texas native says her country roots still shine through.
"You hear country music on this album. You can't just intentionally take the parts away," Morris tells The Guardian. "There would be nothing left of the sound of me. Because it's just there. It's in my bones and it's in the way I write."
Morris still calls Nashville home, keeping her roots at least partly into country music, if not entirely.
"I live in Nashville and I work with all my same friends," she says. "It would be strange to be like, 'This music isn't me anymore.' That makes me feel like I'm shitting on the music I've already put out, and that's not how I feel at all."
"The fans that I've made and the communities those fans have made through being a fan of my music is so important to me," she continues. "So to ever come out of my mouth saying, 'I'm leaving you behind' - I'd never be so reckless and stupid."
