In 2018, Walker Hayes had two-and-a-half years of sobriety under his belt.

But all that hard work almost got sidelined after his seventh child, daughter Oakleigh, was born and died on the same day that June. The day he and his wife Lainey buried their daughter, he had his mind set on drinking.

In a new interview on the K-Love Morning Show , Hayes shares some of the details of that devastating personal loss, and how a lucky twist of fate prevented him from relapse.

"I immediately came home from the cemetery and drove [to] downtown Franklin to just...self-destruct," he recalls.

"I drove to a bar called 55 South, and I looked through the window and there were three guys at the bar," he continued, "And I was like, 'I'm gonna get a little buzz and I'm going to just mess with

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