Lainey Wilson Reveals She Nearly Quit ‘Yellowstone’ Prior To Her Debut

Country singer Lainey Wilson revealed that she nearly quit Yellowstone prior to making her debut as Abby on the hit Paramount series.

During an appearance on the Dutton Rules podcast, Wilson said that she considered leaving the show once her father was hospitalized with health issues.

“In the middle of filming of Yellowstone, my daddy was in the hospital,” Wilson told Adison Haager. “He spent two months in ICU in Houston, fighting for his life — the doctors told us he’s not gonna make it, there’s a big chance he’s not gonna make it.”

She added that she had felt as though she “was on top of the world when it came to opportunities” at the time, however, she and her family “were really, really going through it.”

Although she was considering leaving the show to be there for her family, her father was the one who convinced her to stick with it.

“I was in Houston with my daddy standing next to his bed, and I was like I’m not going to film. I can’t do it. I can’t do it,” she said. “And he woke up just in time before I really made up my mind, and he said, ‘I don’t care if it was my funeral, if you got a job that needs to be done you’d better go do it and not come back until it’s done.'”

“And so, I had to kind of pull up my bootstraps and I had to think what would he want me to do,” she noted. “I had to find that courage from a place I had never actually had [dug] down so deep inside.”

Wilson said some of her fellow Yellowstone cast members also gave her support.

“Every day we were on set they were wanting updates about, ‘How’s your daddy doing? We’re praying. We’re lifting him up,'” she says. “Every single person just came up to me and was loving on me as much as they could. That’s truly, I think, what also gave me the strength to keep on pushing through.”

Wilson recently released an album titled Bell Bottom Country and can be seen in Season 5 of Yellowstone, which stars Kevin Costner.