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Maren Morris & Cassadee Pope vs. Brittany Aldean: EVERYTHING to Know
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After Fox News' Tucker Carlson described Maren Morris a "lunatic state euphony person" amid her feud with Jason Aldean's woman Brittany Aldean, the "Bones" singer decided to turn the disfigured concern into thing positive.
On Sep. 2, Maren announced connected societal media she would beryllium selling T-shirts with the operation printed connected the front. She added that proceeds from income of the achromatic tees—which also feature the fig of the Peer Support & Crisis Hotline for trans youth—will beryllium divided betwixt GLAAD's Transgender Media Program and Trans Lifeline.
In little than 24 hours, Maren shared that her inaugural helped rise a ample magnitude of wealth for the organizations.
"Over $100K raised," she shared connected Twitter Sep. 3. "Have a large Labor Day weekend, lunatics."
The beef betwixt Maren, 32 and Brittany, 33, started connected Aug. 23 erstwhile Jason's woman shared an Instagram Reel of herself applying makeup, with the caption, "I'd truly similar to convey my parents for not changing my sex erstwhile I went done my tomboy phase. I emotion this girly life."
Some radical interpreted her remarks arsenic transphobic. Country singer Cassadee Pope responded to her station connected her Instagram Story and Twitter, writing, "You'd deliberation celebs with quality brands would spot the positives successful including LGBTQ+ radical successful their messaging. But alternatively present we are, proceeding idiosyncratic comparison their 'tomboy phase' to idiosyncratic wanting to transition. Real nice."
Brittany—who shared 2 kids with Jason—then fired back, vowing to "always enactment my children and bash what I tin to support their innocence."
She added, "Some parents privation to beryllium accepted by nine truthful badly, that they're consenting to marque life-altering decisions for their children who aren't aged capable to afloat comprehend the consequences of those actions. Love is protecting your kid until they are mature capable arsenic an big to marque their ain beingness decisions. Thankful my parents allowed maine to spell done my tom lad signifier without changing my sex [sic]. Until then. Leave children alone!"
That's erstwhile Maren, who utilized to circuit with Cassadee, entered the chat, tweeting, "It's truthful casual to, like, not beryllium a scumbag human? Sell your clip-ins and zip it."
In different station she added, "Sucks erstwhile Karens effort to fell their homophobia/transphobia down their 'protectiveness of the children."
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Day later, Brittany shared her thoughts connected the speech and the ensuing backlash, saying that her words got twisted.
"Per usual, my words person been taken retired of discourse implicit the past week," she captioned an Aug. 31 Instagram post, adding that she isn't "getting twisted astir the twisting of my words."
The adjacent day, Jason—who defended his wife connected societal media— was dropped by his publicity firm. E! News has reached retired the state prima for remark but has not heard back.
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