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Jason Aldean revealed he suffered a “breakdown” months after the Las Vegas festival shooting in 2017.
“It was a festival like we’ve done a million times,” Aldean recalled on the “Armchair Expert” podcast. “It was just obviously something that we weren’t prepared for.”
Aldean was performing on Oct. 1, 2017 when shots rang out at the Route 91 Harvest Festival. 60 people died and more than 800 were injured after a man opened fire from the window of a Mandalay Bay casino hotel room.
“We finally got out of there the next afternoon, home, and you’re just glad to be home, show up my mom’s crying,” Aldean told host Dax Shepard. “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 had a busy schedule in the immediate aftermath of the shooting. He opened “SNL” days later then traveled back to Vegas to honor the victims.
“Sunday morning, I was on a flight going back to Las Vegas to go to the hospital and see all the victims. That was tough,” he shared. “People hadn’t recovered from their wounds yet.”
Despite his survivor’s guilt, Aldean never attended therapy in the aftermath – choosing to rely on his family and friends instead.
“I guess [I’m] too Southern,” he told Shepard. “Here’s the ironic thing. We funded a ton of therapy for all the crews and everybody else.”
“My therapy was me, my wife, my band, all of us that were kind of there. We all talked about it amongst each other.”
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