Nate Smith Says Morgan Wallen &x27;Should&x27;ve Kicked&x27; Him Off Tour After He Pulled a PrankGoneWrong: &x27;It Wasn&x27;t Funny&x27; Rachel DeSantisFri, March 27, 2026 at 5:45 PM UTC 0 Nate Smith via Billboard; Morgan Wallen in Atlanta in November 2023.Credit: Billboard/YouTube; Christopher Polk/Penske Media via Getty Nate Smith revealed he threw a drink at Morgan Wallen during the first night of their 2024 tour Smith said Wallen forgave him for the prank, though others were upset Smith praised the singer as being "forgiving" Some drinks go down better than others — just ask country singe...
Nate Smith Says Morgan Wallen 'Should've Kicked' Him Off Tour After He Pulled a Prank-Gone-Wrong: 'It Wasn't Funny'
Rachel DeSantisFri, March 27, 2026 at 5:45 PM UTC
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Nate Smith via Billboard; Morgan Wallen in Atlanta in November 2023.Credit: Billboard/YouTube; Christopher Polk/Penske Media via Getty -
Nate Smith revealed he threw a drink at Morgan Wallen during the first night of their 2024 tour
Smith said Wallen forgave him for the prank, though others were upset
Smith praised the singer as being "forgiving"
Some drinks go down better than others — just ask country singer Nate Smith.
Smith, 40, revealed in a new interview that he once threw a drink at tourmate Morgan Wallen on stage in a prank that was meant to be funny, but was actually anything but.
The "World on Fire" singer was an opening act for Wallen, 32, on the star's One Night at a Time tour in 2024, and told Billboard's Takes Us Out series that he threw "literally a whole cup" at Wallen on the first night of the tour.
"I was trying to be funny, and it wasn't funny," he recalled. "And Morgan forgave me. He should have kicked me off the tour, but we laughed about it. We talked it through. And he's like, 'Man, I probably would have done the same thing,' or 'I've done the same thing.' Like, he understood."
Nate Smith in Hollywood, Florida in November 2025.Credit: Jason Koerner/Getty for Audacy
Wallen may have understood, but not everyone did. Smith said he received "a lot of phone calls" after the incident, which he described as "really serious."
"Nobody was happy about this. Morgan, if you're listening, I love you. I'm still really sorry about that," Smith added. "Thank you for not pranking me back, by the way. You made me think you were going to the entire tour and you didn't. You held back because you're a man who walks in grace. Thank you, sir."
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The conversation came about when Smith was asked to share something he'd learned about Wallen that the rest of the world wouldn't know. His answer was that the "I Got Better" singer is "forgiving."
Smith — whose second album California Gold came out in 2024 — appeared last summer on the cover of PEOPLE Health, where he opened up about his 55-lb. weight loss.
The singer said that after experiencing a severe upper respiratory infection, he came up with a plan in November 2024 that included cutting back on drinking, upping his protein consumption and cutting his daily calorie intake to 2,100.
"I think that the physical stuff has really affected my mental health in a positive way," he said. "It's a concept I heard a million times: 'You gotta love yourself before you love someone else,' but it's kinda true. Because I'm not so insecure about myself, it's helped me be more present. And it's changed the way I can love people. I feel free."
Wallen, meanwhile, released his fourth album I'm the Problem in May 2025. He'll head back on the road in April for his Still the Problem tour.
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Published: March 27, 2026 at 02:00PM on Source: PRIME TIME
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