A country singer is opening up about spending the night in jail. Cody Johnson recently reflected on his past run-ins with the law.
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For one, they haven't always been pleasant. Johnson spoke on Apple Music's The Kelleigh Bannen Show. The country singer also revealed that he has been locked up a few times.
"I've been to jail, stu? like that. People don't know that. I've been locked up a few times in jail. Just overnight. I didn't get sentenced or anything. There are parts of my life that people don't know about, and I'm like, 'Y'all look at this Cody Johnson guy like I'm some kind of saint.' I'm not. I am just like you," Johnson said. He also struggles too.
"I have daily struggles with things that you do too. I have to really work up here a lot to get my brain disciplined to where I don't think like that guy," he also continued. "Let's be a better version of that guy. That kid's got to grow up eventually."
For that reason, Johnson says no one should envy his life. He's gone through dark times like anyone else.
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"Dude, there was a lot of very dark times to get to this sunshine and rainbow experience that I'm having now," he also said. "Sleazy hotel rooms and no money and tinkering with alcoholism or drug problems or whatever, anger issues, whatever it was."
He continued, "It's like I wanted people to know, 'Hey, when you look at me, please don't put me on a pedestal. I'm doing the best I can just like you. I've got parts figured out. I've got parts that I don't have figured out."
However, times have changed. Johnson recently won Entertainer of the Year for the ACM Awards. He credited Luke Combs for being in his corner.
"There's a man who was up for this award that I personally watched devote his life to country music," he said.
"I was there the night in Australia when his wife gave birth to one of their sons. And I watched the anguish, I watched the defeat on his face for not being there, because he was across the world playing music in a sold-out arena," Johnson continued. "The next night, right after, I watched him get on stage and absolutely murder the stage, and go on stage and play country music and preach the message of country music to a bunch of Australians across the world."
