Overview
- Beautifully Broken won best contemporary country album, after earlier victories for best country duo/group performance (Amen with Shaboozey) and best contemporary Christian music performance/song (Hard Fought Hallelujah with Brandon Lake).
- Onstage, he credited Bunnie Xo and his faith with turning his life around, saying he would have been dead, in jail, or would have killed himself without them.
- He arrived at the Grammys visibly slimmer after a widely covered transformation, with recent profiles citing a drop from well over 520 pounds to about 265 pounds, though outlets report varying totals.
- He describes tackling food addiction in therapy, shifting to whole-food nutrition and daily cardio, using metformin, and briefly trying a GLP‑1 medication at the start of his weight-loss effort.
- The couple shared PDA on the red carpet and at the Clive Davis Pre‑Grammy Gala, where he also performed an Ozzy Osbourne tribute reported as Mama I'm Coming Home.