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Carrie Underwood: Which Country Star ‘Smacked My Rear’

Oct 5, 2020 | 7:06 AM

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Carrie Underwood is a regular on the hallowed stage of the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, and in a new article, she opens up about an unexpected encounter with a country legend that took place backstage. The superstar says “it definitely caught me off guard” when one of country music’s all-time icons walked by and smacked her on the backside.

“I was talking to Vince Gill,” she recalls to People, pausing to joke about her casual name-dropping, “and somebody walked by me and smacked my rear.”

“It definitely caught me off guard for a second,” Underwood admits, adding, “and then I turned around, and that was my first time meeting Ms. Loretta Lynn!”

Underwood shared the hilarious recollection as part of a retrospective People published about the Opry turning 95 in October of 2020.

(Taste of Country)

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