You canât âCry Pretty,â but you can cry privately.
Carrie Underwood, whose teary new single is currently climbing the charts, reveals in a new interview where she goes to shed a tear for no one to see.
âI feel like my car would be a good crying place, you know,â she says. âYou just feel kind of safe. Itâs like a small space. Thereâs probably people that can see me at stop lights and whatnotâbut oh, well.â
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The country megastar goes on to describe why she wanted to pen a song like âCry Pretty,â which sheâs previously says was âexactly what [she was] feeling in that moment.â
âAs humans, weâre expected to have our crap together all the time,â Carrie says. âAnd being a mom and a wife and trying to navigate all that we do, every once in a while, I feel like thereâs just a bubble over of emotion, and weâre kind of discouraged, I think, from doing that in life, and sometimes you just have to. It might be unattractive and it might be a sad, ugly moment, but it has to happen. And itâs OK.â
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During the chat, Carrie also sounds off on the fall that left her with a broken wrist and injured face.
Cry Pretty, the album, drops September 14.
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