The spotlight was on Sam Hunt's then-fiancee Hannah Lee Fowler during his performance at the 2017 ACM Awards. She seemed very caught off guard and uncomfortable.... and now Sam's explaining why he did it.
“Involving her with that performance was fun. She was a little uncomfortable about being there and a little overwhelmed,” he says via his record label, “and she may not agree, but I thought that would warm her up a little bit to the whole experience and she may not admit it, but I think it did.”
“I get concerned about little details a lot of times and things going wrong or not going wrong and having her there just made it all go away,” he admits. “So, that’s another reason I wanted to go down and sit with her and made sure she knew that she’s really what matters, you know.”
The ACM Awards were on April 2, and Hunt and Fowler got married a few weeks later (April 15) in Georgia.