The troubled Country music star spoke with Good Morning America about his use of a racist slur in a video that went viral in February.
Wallen argues in an interview with GMA co-host Michael Strahan that he did not use the N-word in a derogatory manner.
“I had some of my longtime friends in town and we had been partying that weekend and we figured we’d just go hard for the two or three days that they were there.”
“We say dumb stuff together. In our minds, it was just playful. That sounds ignorant but that’s really where it came from. It was wrong. We were all clearly drunk.”
He went on to say that he gave a percentage of the proceeds from his record to organizations that assist Black people and Black musicians, such as the Black Music Action Coalition.
“Before this incident, my album was already doing well. It was already being well-received by critics and by fans. Me and my team noticed that whenever this whole incident happened that there was a spike in my sales. So we tried to calculate what the number of – how much it actually spiked from this incident.”
“We got to a number somewhere around $500,000, and we decided to donate that money to some organizations – BMAC being the first one.”
Industry outrage followed the release of the footage of the ‘Cover Me Up’ singer using the N-word, to which he issued multiple apologies for, but has yet to fully recover.
Wallen’s whole interview with GMA may be seen below.
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