Jason Aldean revealed that he suffered an emotional «breakdown» months after surviving the shooting at the 2017 Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas.
Jason Aldean is forever changed by the 2017 Las Vegas music fest massacre.
The country singer, 48, appeared on Monday’s episode of Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Expert” podcast and reflected on the Route 91 Harvest Festival shooting, where a gunman opened fire in the crowd on the Las Vegas strip while Aldean was performing on stage.
Sixty people were killed and over 800 others were injured in the Oct. 1, 2017 incident.
“It was a festival like we’ve done a million times,” Aldean said on the podcast. “It was just obviously something that we weren’t prepared for.”
“Obviously, it was a horrible ordeal,” the singer continued. “We finally got out of there the next afternoon, home and you’re just glad to be home, show up, my mom’s crying. You know, my oldest daughter was in school, freaking out, thinking that somebody was trying to shoot us, so all the details were still kind of coming out.”
Aldean noted that he barely had time to process the shooting because of his busy schedule, which involved doing more shows on his tour and performing on “Saturday Night Live” the weekend after the incident.
