Elle King is 'best version' of herself after drunken debacle
Earlier this year, Elle King caused a scene after performing drunk and shouting profanities at the crowd during a family-friendly Dolly Parton birthday tribute concert at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville but Elle says she has turned her life around since then.
Elle King is now the "best version" of herself after her drunken Dolly Parton tribute.
Earlier this year, the 35-year-old singer caused a scene after performing drunk and shouting profanities at the crowd during a family-friendly Dolly Parton birthday tribute concert at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville but Elle says she has turned her life around since then.
She told PEOPLE: "Try having something bad you did go viral - that was pretty hard. I never thought that a single human being would ever buy a ticket to my show again. But they do.
"I felt so afraid to ever have a drink before I go onstage again because I appreciated someone buying tickets to my concert. I wasn’t going to let them down. I did let people down. And ultimately, I let myself down that day, and I never wanted to feel that ever again ... I'm definitely able to put on a better show because of some changes that I've made in my life, and it gets me more excited.
"I’m doing things that make me proud of myself. I’ve got a small son. He’s going to find out about all this one day, and he’s going to see that I tried to be just the best version of myself, and I used it to make myself better, and I did. It’s more of a love story of self than anything.
"I'm very happy, I'm very content, which is nice, and I don't know if I've ever really felt that, so it's a blessing ... This is worth all the effort in the world. My family, this is what deserves all the energy and effort. All this other [stuff] is just a plus."
Elle has just released her new single 'High Road' and admitted it was inspired by the events of the past year.
She said: "Since last year, if anything was going wrong or something p***** me off, my manager would say, 'High Road 2024,' and that was our theme of like, 'Take the f****** high road, b****. Be the person that you would hope that you could be through any situation'. And it's just been a phrase that we've used."
