Morgan Wallen convicted after throwing chair off Nashville roof

Country music star Morgan Wallen has been sentenced to two years of probation after throwing a chair off the roof of a bar in Tennessee.

The I Had Some Help singer will also spend seven days in a training center for driving under the influence after he pleaded guilty to two counts of reckless endangerment.

The 31-year-old was arrested after throwing a chair on April 7 this year from the roof of the six-storey Chief’s bar, which is owned by fellow countryman Eric Church. The seat plummeted to Broadway – a major thoroughfare of bars and venues in the heart of Nashville.

Wallen is best known for his chart-topping song Last Night from his award-winning album One Thing at a Time and for his early success on the NBC show The Voice.

The chair-throwing incident occurred as Chief’s was celebrating its opening weekend.

Wallen was imprisoned a day later and subsequently released.

He apologized for the incident on social media.

“I have been in contact with Nashville law enforcement, my family and the good people at Chief,” he wrote on social media.

“I am not proud of my behavior and I take responsibility.”

It was not Wallen’s first brush with the law.

He was previously arrested in May 2020 for public intoxication and disorderly conduct outside Kid Rock’s honky-tonk bar in the Entertainment District, The Tennessean newspaper reported.

In 2021, he made headlines after he was caught on video yelling a racist slur outside his home in Tennessee.

To incident resulted in the loss of his recording contract. He was dropped from country radio stations and suspended from the Country Music Awards for three years.

Wallen later apologized for his actions. “There is no apology. I have never made an apology. I will never make an apology,” he told Billboard magazine in an interview.

Despite these controversies, he was named entertainer of the year at last month’s CMA awards.