Miranda Lambert gets emotional singing in concert after 'really, really sh**ty year'
"Oh, god! I hope I don't cry when I sing it!"
Miranda Lambert took her Roadside Bars and Pink Guitars: Unplugged tour to Nashville on Wednesday and performed longtime collaborator Scotty Wray's song, "Scars," for the first time.
"We both had like, a really, really sh**ty year in 2015 and we have tattoos to prove it," the singer told the crowd at City Winery. "We're moving forward."
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Lambert went on to explain that Wray has always wanted to hear her sing it. "I said, 'Well, I wasn't ever damaged enough to sing a song called 'Scars,'" she explained. "It's something you have to sell and really feel and really live and go through s**t to execute a song like that."
In the end, she executed it beautifully:
The 32-year-old Grammy winner's "sh**ty" year included her divorce from ex-husband Blake Shelton -- and his subsequent high-profile relationship with his fellow The Voice coach, Gwen Stefani -- and ended with her causing controversy with PETA.
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Now, Lambert says her life is "magical."
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"I feel so blessed to call these incredibly talented people my friends. They inspire me every day," she wrote on Instagram. "I've been singing [Wray's] song 'Scars' with him all those years. And last night I got to sing it on my own for the first time. It meant a lot to both of us. Sometimes you have to live it to sing it. Especially a song like that. Thanks to everyone who came to share it with us."
It wasn't all bad news in 2015. The country singer also met new boyfriend Anderson East.