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27-03-2025
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Ingrid Andress Will 'Never' Perform National Anthem Again. How She's Moving on After Botched Performance (Exclusive)
Ingrid Andress admits she was nervous when she appeared on Nashville's Grand Ole Opry this month. No wonder: It was her first time to sing on a stage after her drunken performance of the national anthem went viral last July and led to a month in rehab. Of course she wanted nothing to go wrong with this comeback. But one verse into 'Lady Like' while accompanying herself on piano, the 33-year-old artist abruptly stopped singing. 'Hold on,' she said, yanking off her right boot as she explained to the crowd that her high heel was interfering with her piano play. 'I couldn't hit the pedal!' Days later, she's lamenting the glitch to PEOPLE, annoyed that it occurred 'the one time I'm coming back to redeem myself.' Ah, well. Worse things could have happened. 'Truly! Worse things have happened!' Andress says with a hearty laugh — something that shows itself frequently now, eight months removed from the botched anthem that she calls 'my worst nightmare come true.' Related: Ingrid Andress Says She Was 'Crying Every Day' During Rehab Stay: 'I Felt So Raw' (Exclusive) The Opry actually wasn't Andress' first stop as she re-enters public life. That was reserved for a Denver Avalanche hockey game on Feb. 28, where she delivered a redemptive performance of 'The Star-Spangled Banner.' This time she nailed it. She calls that 'the second anthem,' then corrects herself: 'the last one.' After what she's been through, she's not about to tempt fate. 'I'm never performing that song again — ever,' she says, her tart wit fully intact. That chapter is closed, but it's left her feeling vulnerable. The next chapter is beginning slowly. So far, Andress has released one new single, 'Footprints,' her first new music in over a year, and she's booked just two shows, in April in her home state of Colorado. 'I wanted to do some Colorado shows for my fans, just to ease back in,' she says. 'I didn't want to do like, 'We're back, baby!' and pretend nothing's changed. No, let's start small and see how we feel.' Related: Ingrid Andress Returns to Spotlight to Sing National Anthem 7 Months After Fumbled Performance, Rehab Check-In The performance at the Opry, where she's appeared several times before, offered her a first sample, and she says, 'It was really nice to be back in a familiar setting. The Opry is very welcoming, and everyone wants you to do well.' Indeed, the reception was warm enough for her to risk a brief allusion to her viral moment. 'I'm definitely not a perfect person — as we've all found out,' she playfully told the audience when she introduced 'Footprints.' The comment evoked a ripple of sympathetic laughter. Despite all the upheaval of the past year, Andress says, she still feels like 'who I am, at my core, is still me.' What has changed is new healthful behaviors. Alcohol, she now understands, is a hindrance, not a help. Instead, she's learning how to process her feelings rather than numb them, to take better steps to self-care. Perhaps most important, she's learning how to give herself grace when she makes mistakes. In therapy, she says, she realized that, growing up in a strict Christian household, she had somehow come to believe that making mistakes meant 'I had failed as a human being.' One reason she selected 'Footprints' as her first single, she says, is that its lyrics mean something so different to her now than when she wrote them two years ago. Initially, she thought the tender ballad was presenting herself as a role model, encouraging her four siblings to successfully takes risks just as she had. But, she says, 'It felt more meaningful for me to release it now when I feel like, 'Hey, you can royally f--- up and still keep going.' Discovering that herself, during her time off, was crucial. 'Resilience is probably one of the best superpowers I've been granted,' she says with obvious pride. Andress says she deliberately chose to restart her public life, six months after rehab, only when she 'got to a place of like, oh, I enjoy myself. I like who I am, separate from anything that I do.' But at heart, she also knows her artistry is part of what defines her, and she remains passionate about her music. She admits she had a fleeting moment during her downtime when she thought about abandoning the stage and turning exclusively to songwriting, which is what brought her to Nashville over a decade ago. 'But then I remember how I got into being an artist,' she says, 'and I'd probably just repeat the same thing, writing more personal songs that are more my story, and then I would not want other people to sing them. And then we'd be back to where we are now!' Related: Ingrid Andress 'Felt Like America's Punching Bag' After Drunken, Botched National Anthem: 'My Worst Moment' Better, she's decided, to focus on new ways to manage her life. That includes a fitness routine — tennis and yoga are go-to pursuits — and other healthful habits. 'Hydration and sleep and activity do wonders,' she says. 'And cross-stitching … It's very therapeutic.' What about therapy itself? 'Once a week, baby!' she enthuses. 'We're keeping it moving.' These days, life also means being single. 'I would probably not know what to do with another romantic human at this point,' she says with a laugh. Andress is adjusting to life without alcohol, as well, and she takes her guidance from the 12-step approach: 'I am very much a 'one day at a time' person.' She refuses to think of alcohol as the enemy. 'You have to take ownership of the fact that you're still choosing to do that to yourself,' she says. 'So, to me, I don't want to give that kind of power to anything. At the core of everyone's substance abuse is a human struggle.' Now that she's on the other side of surviving her 'worst fear,' Andress is finding so much of her music sounds different to her now. 'Footprints' is hardly the only song with fresh meaning. Her signature anthem, 'Lady Like,' for example, has become less a proclamation of her power — and her flaws — and more a statement of fact: 'At first, I was like, this is who I am, and hear me roar. Now when I sing it, it does resonate on such a deeper level because I feel even more comfortable saying it.' Several songs on her last album, 2022's Good Person, also resonate differently to their maker. Of course Andress sees the irony in the title now, given the impression so many people were left with after that fateful day last July. But more significantly, she says she's setting aside the question that she poses in the title song. Is she a 'good person'? 'Oh, I still don't know what that means,' she says with a laugh. Then she quiets to give herself a long moment's thought. 'I try to be, and I think at my core I am,' she says, but she adds, 'I try not to look at things anymore based on good or bad. It's just like, it is. It just is. And that opens up a whole other fun place to go with your brain.' Read the original article on People
Fox News
07-03-2025
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- Fox News
Ingrid Andress says she felt like 'America's punching bag' after drunk national anthem performance
Country music singer-songwriter Ingrid Andress broke her silence for the first time on Thursday, nearly a year after she admitted herself to rehab following her admission that she had been "drunk" during her controversial national anthem performance at the 2024 MLB Home Run Derby. Andress, 33, appeared on "The Viall Files" podcast this week to discuss the fallout from her performance and what transpired just before she took the field at Globe Life Field in Arlington in mid-July. "That day started as a very – what seemed like a normal day," Andress recalled. "At that point, like that day, I knew that I was drinking, but I was really loving the numbing feeling that I was having, and so I just didn't stop." The four-time Grammy nominee explained that a recent split with her first manager and a breakup had prompted her to begin drinking excessively in the months leading up to her performance. She admitted that in her state at the time, she had been unaware of the crowd and fan reaction at home and had believed that she had "kind of nailed it." "It wasn't until I woke up the next day where I was like 'OK, this is so unlike me. This is not OK. I need help,'" Andress said. "I didn't realize how much the video was going viral, because I had never experienced anything like that." Andress later admitted in a statement she shared on social media that she had been "drunk" while singing the national anthem. She said on Thursday that she had shared the statement while on plane to rehab. "I'm not gonna bulls--- y'all, I was drunk last night," her statement read. "I'm checking myself into a facility today to get the help I need. That was not me last night. I apologize to MLB, all the fans, and this country I love so much for that rendition. I'll let y'all know how rehab is, I hear it's super fun." Andress said on Thursday that she had received an overwhelming amount of hatred and felt like "America's punching bag." She joked that because of the political climate at the time, she took some solace in knowing that she could at least unify people on one thing. "I will say, at the time, politics was really bubbling, and I just feel like there was a lot of angst in general during that time. So, if anything, I feel like – I'm fine with being America's punching bag, because for one moment, everybody was united in the fact that that was awful. So I feel like I united America in a way." Last month, Andress had the opportunity to redeem herself and performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" at an NHL game in Colorado. She also released a new single earlier this week. She said on Thursday that after her stint in rehab and time with her family at home in Colorado, she felt ready to return. "I spent a lot of time with family, and then I was like, 'I think it's time to re-emerge.'" Follow Fox News Digital's sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.
Yahoo
06-03-2025
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Ingrid Andress Returns to Spotlight After National Anthem Controversy
Originally appeared on E! Online Ingrid Andress is returning to the spotlight. The "More Hearts Than Mine" singer performed the national anthem at Ball Arena in Denver, Colorado, ahead of the Feb. 28 Colorado Avalanche's hockey game against the Minnesota Wild. Andress' performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" came seven months after her ridiculed rendition of the national anthem from the 2024 Home Run Derby went viral, and she subsequently checked herself into rehab. The country singer donned light wash blue jeans, an Avalanche jersey and heels as she performed ahead of the hockey game and appeared in good spirits as she got the crowd to sing along midway through the song. "We're back baby," Andress captioned a video of the performance on Instagram. "Thank you @coloradoavalanche." Back in July, the singer, 33, confessed to being drunk when she fumbled the national anthem at the baseball game before revealing that she would be entering rehab after the immediate blowback from her performance. More from E! Online Dolly Parton's Husband Carl Dean Dead at 82 Oscars 2025: Shannen Doherty's Rep Calls Out In Memoriam Snub Oscars 2025: Miley Cyrus Is Unrecognizable Without Eyebrows on Date Night With Maxx Morando "I'm not gonna bulls--t y'all, I was drunk last night," she said on Instagram at the time. "I'm checking myself into a facility today to get the help I need. That was not me last night." Andress added, "I apologize to the MLB, all the fans, and this country I love so much for that rendition. I'll let y'all know how rehab is I hear it's super fun. xo, Ingrid." "As a kid, it was a scary thing to hear," Andress continued. "This inability to fail brought me great success, but also brought extreme burnout and more fear than joy. As I've gotten older and experienced more life, I think the most human thing on earth is failing. It's getting kicked off, feeling the sting of it, but getting back on the same damn horse anyway." The country star continued to say that she strives to be "resilient" and that the mistakes she's made in her life her "the person I am today." "As a kid, it was a scary thing to hear," Andress continued. "This inability to fail brought me great success, but also brought extreme burnout and more fear than joy. As I've gotten older and experienced more life, I think the most human thing on earth is failing. It's getting kicked off, feeling the sting of it, but getting back on the same damn horse anyway." The country star continued to say that she strives to be "resilient" and that the mistakes she's made in her life her "the person I am today." "We have to talk about our mistakes in order for our success to make sense," she concluded. "'Footprints' is a reminder to all the people I love the most, and also to myself, that I'm out here trying my best at this 'life' thing." Keep reading for more stars who have been candid about their sobriety BaldwinAnne Hathaway Jamie Lee Curtis Jason RitterBrantley Gilbert
USA Today
04-03-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
After viral 'drunk' national anthem, Ingrid Andress returns to sing 'Star-Spangled Banner'
After viral 'drunk' national anthem, Ingrid Andress returns to sing 'Star-Spangled Banner' Show Caption Hide Caption Ingrid Andress talks about the making of Lady Like Ingrid Andress, the country music star who sang the national anthem before the MLB Home Run Derby, talks about the making of Lady Like. After her performance of the national anthem at the MLB Home Run Derby went viral for all the wrong reasons last year, Ingrid Andress is back to try it again. The 33-year-old singer returned to perform "The Star-Spangled Banner" during a recent Colorado Avalanche hockey game, as she shared in an Instagram clip posted on Friday. "We're back baby," she captioned the video. Andress also dropped a new single on Monday titled "Footprints." In an Instagram post about the new song, she reflected on how she was taught "that 'failure' was not an option" growing up. "As I've gotten older and experienced more life, I think the most human thing on earth is failing," she said. "It's getting kicked off, feeling the sting of it, but getting back on the same damn horse anyway. The sister, daughter, and human I want to be is resilient. Without the mistakes in my life, I would not be the person I am today, and I sure as hell wouldn't have the stories to pass on about my journey. We have to talk about our mistakes in order for our success to make sense." Ingrid Andress says she was 'drunk' during national anthem performance, will check into rehab "Footprints" is a "reminder to all the people I love the most, and also to myself, that I'm out here trying my best at this 'life' thing, and if there's any helpful guidance anyone can take from it, it's all worth it," she added. The track includes the lyrics, "Through the years, I'd make mistakes so you wouldn't have to make 'em. / And I took chances every day so you'd know when to take 'em." Ingrid Andress national anthem video In July, the Grammy nominee went viral as footage of her delivering what critics dubbed the "worst national anthem performance of all time" at the MLB Home Run Derby spread on social media. Who is Ingrid Andress? What to know about national anthem singer, 4-time Grammy nominee In a statement the following day, Andress admitted she was "drunk last night" and would be "checking myself into a facility" to get help. "That was not me last night," she said. "I apologize to MLB, all the fans, and this country I love so much for that rendition. I'll let y'all know how rehab is I hear it's super fun." Andress went dark on Instagram and X between that statement and her Friday post, where she shared the clip of herself performing at the Colorado Avalanche game. The video ended with the singer celebrating backstage as the person filming told her that she "sounded great." But reactions to the latest performance were mixed on Instagram, with one comment saying she "rocked it," while another said that this time was "just as bad."
Yahoo
04-03-2025
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After viral 'drunk' national anthem, Ingrid Andress returns to sing 'Star-Spangled Banner'
After her performance of the national anthem at the MLB Home Run Derby went viral for all the wrong reasons last year, Ingrid Andress is back to try it again. The 33-year-old singer returned to perform "The Star-Spangled Banner" during a recent Colorado Avalanche hockey game, as she shared in an Instagram clip posted on Friday. "We're back baby," she captioned the video. Andress also dropped a new single on Monday titled "Footprints." In an Instagram post about the new song, she reflected on how she was taught "that 'failure' was not an option" growing up. "As I've gotten older and experienced more life, I think the most human thing on earth is failing," she said. "It's getting kicked off, feeling the sting of it, but getting back on the same damn horse anyway. The sister, daughter, and human I want to be is resilient. Without the mistakes in my life, I would not be the person I am today, and I sure as hell wouldn't have the stories to pass on about my journey. We have to talk about our mistakes in order for our success to make sense." Ingrid Andress says she was 'drunk' during national anthem performance, will check into rehab "Footprints" is a "reminder to all the people I love the most, and also to myself, that I'm out here trying my best at this 'life' thing, and if there's any helpful guidance anyone can take from it, it's all worth it," she added. The track includes the lyrics, "Through the years, I'd make mistakes so you wouldn't have to make 'em. / And I took chances every day so you'd know when to take 'em." In July, the Grammy nominee went viral as footage of her delivering what critics dubbed the "worst national anthem performance of all time" at the MLB Home Run Derby spread on social media. Who is Ingrid Andress? What to know about national anthem singer, 4-time Grammy nominee In a statement the following day, Andress admitted she was "drunk last night" and would be "checking myself into a facility" to get help. "That was not me last night," she said. "I apologize to MLB, all the fans, and this country I love so much for that rendition. I'll let y'all know how rehab is I hear it's super fun." Andress went dark on Instagram and X between that statement and her Friday post, where she shared the clip of herself performing at the Colorado Avalanche game. The video ended with the singer celebrating backstage as the person filming told her that she "sounded great." But reactions to the latest performance were mixed on Instagram, with one comment saying she "rocked it," while another said that this time was "just as bad." This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Ingrid Andress sings national anthem again after viral song, rehab
