Maren Morris Reveals She Once Had a Panic Attack Before Opening for The Chicks amid Her Divorce

• Maren Morris was candid about her mental health issues during an appearance on SiriusXM this month
• The singer has opened up about the panic attack she had on tour last year amid her divorce from ex-husband Ryan Hurd
• The Grammy winner also recently told PEOPLE that she didn’t want to cancel songwriting sessions the week she filed for divorce

Maren Morris looks back on a year full of challenges.

During an August appearance on SiriusXM Fierce: Women in Music show, the 34-year-old singer-songwriter opened up about the mental health struggles she endured following her divorce from ex-husband, country musician Ryan Hurd, from whom she split last year after five years of marriage.

According to Morris, the pressures of her personal life boiled over as she prepared for The Chicks’ 2023 world tour last fall.

“It was in Toronto last year, we were opening for The Chicks, and a lot of things at home weren’t great and definitely, during the sound check, I had a little bit of a mental… well, it’s just a panic attack,” the musician admitted. I could have done the show, but there were a lot of factors.”

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“Sometimes life doesn’t wait for you to conveniently break down while you’re at home in the comfort of your own bedroom,” she added. “Sometimes you have to put on your big girl pants and quietly go do a show.”

Morris also opened up about how hard it was to keep a brave face while juggling her career and parenting her son, Hayes Andrew, who she shares with Hurd. “You still have to be a mother, even though everything in your life may have imploded that day or that year. It’s like shielding an explosion from a four-year-old,” the performer continued.

Morris noted that once she felt “safe” to finally let her emotions flow, she “let me fall apart.” “It was like everything was over and everything was finalized. Then I said, ‘OK, now I can cry,'” she said. “Because I feel like we have to be pretty steady through the process.”

Maren Morris visits SiriusXM Studios on August 9, 2024 in New York City.

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Later in the interview, the “Push Me Over” singer revealed that she continued to work on music during her divorce from Hurd, 37, even resuming songwriting the same week she filed in October 2023.

“The week I filed for divorce, I wrote all week and people came [Los Angeles] to Nashville. So I didn’t want to cancel because they flew in to write with me,” she explained. “I felt that I had a responsibility even through that darkness.”

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Recalling the course of events that week, Morris recalls her friends in LA telling her, “Oh my God.’ Because, you know, they didn’t know I was planning to do it that Monday.” “They were like, ‘Are you sure you want to be here? Like, we can totally cancel,'” she recalled. “And I say, ‘No, I really have to be here. I can’t go home.'”

Maren Morris performs at the 2024 Coca-Cola Sips & Sounds Summer Festival in Austin, Texas on June 30, 2024.

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Morris echoed similar sentiments about working through a divorce during a recent interview with PEOPLE while discussing her latest EP, Interruptionwhich fell on August 2.

“I wrote through a lot of really tough weeks where I probably could have just canceled my sessions,” she said, “but I’m glad I didn’t because I wanted to be able to again… Even in the most heartbreaking, depressive phase, to be able to document my experience that day and then find your way back to the surface through each song.”

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The Grammy winner also spoke about how she still sings songs inspired/worked on by her singer-songwriter ex-husband without any regrets, despite the sting. “Obviously there’s room for songs you’ve written about the love of your life,” Morris added. “In a way, I don’t want to say I go on autopilot for songs like that so I don’t feel the pain, but it is what it is.”

“These are songs that mean something to people, so it’s such a gift,” she concluded. “I don’t really look back on them with shame or regret. It’s like, ‘It was a really good time,’ and I really felt that way when I wrote it; it didn’t work out in the long run, but the song is still important.”

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