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Thomas Rhett Gushes Over Daughters & Wife Lauren Akins
Thomas Rhett knows how to smile through the pain.
Ahead of his surprise appearance during Forrest Frank’s concert at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena April 13, the country star took a tumble—and ended up leaving the venue in a wheelchair.
"Every now and then you just have to sing at a Forrest Frank concert and break your ankle in the process," Thomas joked in an April 15 Instagram video. "I gave my all for Tennessee tonight."
In the video, Forrest can be seen surprising fans when he introduced his “Nothing Else” collaborator mid-show, saying, “I can’t sing Thomas Rhett’s verse, right?”
The camera then panned to a nonchalant Thomas sitting in an empty section of the arena to the side of the stage. But as he made his way down the steps, he could be seen tripping and twisting his ankle before making a quick recovery.
Still, he limped onto the stage and gave an energetic performance, jumping up and down despite the pain. But just moments after he left his all on the stage, his wife Lauren Akins—who shares daughters Willa Gray, 9, Ada James, 7, Lennon Love, 5, and Lillie Carolina, 3, with the singer—ended up pushing him around the arena in a wheelchair.
"@hiforrest told me to pull up,” Thomas captioned the video, “and I left in a wheelchair."
After all, it seems Thomas wasn’t the only musician to have fallen victim to the dangers of performing. Indeed, Kelsea Ballerini recently fell off a moving platform during a performance of Garth Brooks’ “Friends in Low Places” on the last stop of her tour’s North American leg in Toronto.
But much like Thomas, the 31-year-old didn’t miss a beat. After she fell off the platform as it rose off the ground, the “Cowboys Cry Too” singer immediately sat up and kept singing with a giggle, turning the fall into a fabulous pose. And though the crowd let out an audible gasp, she sang the lyrics, “I’ll be okay” as she continued to put on a great show in her matching turquoise boots and bodysuit.
Perhaps the “Dibs” singer—who has been dating Outer Banks star Chase Stokes since 2023—has a bit of bad luck when it comes to concert mishaps. Because back in June 2023, she had to temporarily pause her set after she was struck in the face by an unknown object thrown onto the stage.
"Can we just talk about what happened?" she asked the crowd during the Idaho show. "All I care about is keeping everyone safe. If you ever don't feel safe, please let someone around you know."
Along with Kelsea, keep reading to see all the performers that have found themselves injured by objects catapulted from the crowd.
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