Three years ago this week, Hardy was on his way back from a concert in Bristol, Tennessee, when his tour bus careened off the road and rolled down an embankment. The country singer, his photographer, his then-tour manager, and bus driver were all flung about the cabin and seriously injured.

Hardy has talked about the early morning hours of Oct. 2, 2022, in bits and pieces in the past, but on this week’s episode of Rolling Stone ’s Nashville Now podcast, he recounts in terrifying detail what happened just a few miles outside of Nashville.

According to Hardy, he and his photographer were listening to Kendrick Lamar and FaceTiming with Morgan Wallen, Hardy’s longtime friend, when his bus driver pulled over to use the bus’s bathroom. Something didn’t seem right to Hardy, so he asked

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