Amy Grant once said something to Vince Gill that he never forgot

Vince Gill opened up about his home life with wife Amy Grant as a recent guest on Clint Black’s Talking in circles interview show on the Peacock.

The country mainstay told Black about a time early in their relationship that he took Grant out to play golf with him. Fans know that Gill wears his heart on his sleeve – he has a hard time hiding his emotions, both positive and negative.

It was a problem this day on the golf course, he explains.

Gill says he carefully put the golf club back in the bag and tried to break its head unnoticed to release his anger while hiding it from Grant.

“We’re playing and I hit a shot. I’m not too happy and I put the club in the bag and I break the head off,” he recalls.

“She turned around and saw me and I’m like, ‘Excuse me,'” Gill recalls, “And she’s like, ‘ah that doesn’t surprise me.'”

“I say, ‘well, what do you mean?’ She says, ‘Well, you’re an emotional guy than you do, you love to laugh, you love comedians, you laugh from your toes when something’s funny.’

What she said next has stuck with him to this day.

“She says, ‘And then I’ve seen you completely fall apart in front of the whole world and cry your eyes out. Now you’ve hit a golf shot and you’re mad. You can’t control any of your emotions,'” Gill recalls that Grant told him.

“How could you ever expect to control an emotion if you can’t control any of your emotions.”

Recalling the incident, he began to cry and described what his now-wife of almost 25 years said and what it still means to him.

“It was pretty powerful, because all my life I only got grief over that feeling, over anger. Then someone pointed out all of what I was, and it was powerful. Pretty cool.”

The couple have been married since 2000 and are celebrating 25 years of bliss in March. Gill recently shared her secret to a happy marriage with the rest of the world.