Wynonna Judd chalked her “bizarre” CMA Awards 2023 performance with up-and-coming singer Jelly Roll Wednesday night up to nerves.
“I’m just gonna come clean with y’all. I was so freaking nervous,” Judd admitted in a video posted to social media.
“I got out there and I looked at Jelly Roll. I wanted it to be so good for him. I could cry right now, but I’m not going to because I’m such a fan of his and he asked me to sing and I said, ‘Absolutely!'”
Judd, 59, said once she got out on stage she was “so nervous” that she “held on for dear life.”
“And that’s the bottom line,” she concluded, adding that she would be traveling back to Texas to continue her Back to Wy tour.
The “Why Not Me” singer — who lost her mother, Naomi Judd, to suicide last year — appeared unsteady while performing a duet of Jelly Roll’s track “Need a Favor” and held onto him throughout the rendition.
“She’s been through so much. Someone help her,” one viewer tweeted.
“It was seriously bizarre,” another observed. “I wonder what’s going on? She barely moved once she got a death grip on him.”
Some fans speculated that Wynonna’s struggles with vertigo, which caused her to drop out of “New Year’s Eve Live: Nashville’s Big Bash,” played a role.
Prior to the CMA Awards, Wynonna shared a video of herself getting glammed up for the big event and appeared in great spirits as she walked the red carpet and posed for photos.
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