PHOTOSCarrie Underwood Tears Up After Hearing Miranda Lambert Praise Her On A Radio Show
Nov. 11 2019, Published 7:46 p.m. ET
Carrie Underwood is set to cohost the CMA Awards with Reba McEntire and Dolly Parton on November 13. Carrie is also nominated for the Entertainer of the Year and she has Miranda Lambert’s full support! The Cry Pretty singer held back tears during an interview on November 11 after hearing Miranda explain why she believes Carrie deserves the award.
Miranda, 36, gushed about Carrie, 36, in a lengthy post on Instagram on October 7 months after the “Southbound” singer made the nominee list for CMA Entertainer of the Year. The category has only been won by five women.
“It just was kind of haunting me. I really felt compelled to say something,” Miranda explained on the Kix Brooks radio show about why she shared such a glowing post about Carrie. “Watching Carrie host the CMAs pregnant last year, and also do the Monday Night Football campaign, and also have a brand, and also work with charity, and be a wife, and be a mother and then host the CMAs this year with two legendary country artists and go on tour. She tours like a rock star—she does every other day while we’re weekend warriors over here.”
She continued, “I just know how much work that is. She works harder than I do, and I work hard. I just felt like, as a whole, with her tour and everything she encompasses and what she’s represented for country music, she deserves it. She just does.”
Carrie got emotional during her appearance on the Ty Bentli Show after the host played Miranda’s interview. “She's always been just super supportive and super sweet,” Carrie said.
“I'm kind of emotional. It's a nomination for all of us. It would definitely be not just a win for all of the things that we've been doing, all that stuff that Miranda mentioned that I'm so lucky and blessed enough to do,” the mom-of-two said while choking back tears. “You watch other women in this industry do the same thing, you know, it's — I don’t know what I'm trying to say."
She continued, “We have so much talent among female country singers, we just need some more open doors, and I don’t want any woman to feel like they can’t do everything—they can’t have this life, and have a family and have all of the things going on together and do what they do.”
“We’re all in it together,” Carrie added. “If there’s one incredible thing that’s happened from all of this talk about women in country music, it’s the fact that I feel like we’ve all banded together. We all understand—we’re the only ones that can understand because we’re women in this business. They don’t know what it’s like to be us. We lift each other up. We support each other. Miranda didn’t have to say any of that stuff.”
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