Darius Rucker Takes Nasty Fall As He Faceplants Onstage

Darius Rucker didn’t let a little bit tumble cease him from rocking his hometown.

The singer took a spill whereas performing with Hootie & the Blowfish throughout the Riverfront Revival on Saturday, October 12, in Charleston, South Carolina, which marked the top of the band’s large 43-city tour. The present had the nation music singer laughing off the second in basic Darius style.

Not solely was it a hometown hit, however the competition itself is one Darius Rucker curates yearly.

In fan-captured footage, 58-year-old Rucker took a stumble mid-performance throughout his hometown present with Hootie & the Blowfish.

Whereas launching into the primary verse of his 2009 solo hit “Alright,” Rucker appeared to journey on an onstage monitor and faceplanted. “I am outdated as f-ck,” he joked, laughing it off with the group.

Touring keyboard participant Lee Turner even identified the spot the place Rucker fell, including to the lighthearted second. After ending the tune, Rucker addressed the group, saying, “We have been doing this all summer time. I hadn’t fallen as soon as. However I busted my a– in my hometown.”

After seeing the clip, many followers thought the nation music star was intoxicated throughout the present, which can have performed a component in his mishap. “He is loaded,” one consumer claimed. “He by no means has sang the songs the way in which they’re recorded when stay however by no means heard him sound that unhealthy.”

“You imply drunk af. Thats not how Darius Rucker usually sings,” one other mentioned.

Final month, Rucker was sentenced to 11 months and 29 days of probation after pleading no contest to a cost of easy possession of a managed substance. The cost stemmed from a traffic stop in February 2024.

In February 2024, he was arrested on two counts of easy possession/informal change of a managed substance and one rely of violating Tennessee’s automobile registration regulation, as confirmed by the Williamson County Sheriff’s Workplace to People Magazine on the time.

“It sucks,” the “Wagon Wheel” singer advised the outlet. “Fifty-seven years, by no means seen inside a police automotive or jail, and I get busted for that.”

“I imply, I appeared again at that and I used to be like, ‘I obtained stopped by a police officer and I had a little bit little bit of pot, and I feel a little bit little bit of some mushrooms or one thing within the automotive, and he let me go.’ And a 12 months later I obtained a cellphone name from a buddy that mentioned, ‘I feel I simply noticed an arrest warrant for you.’ It shocked me,” he continued. “And I’m dealing with it with my attorneys, and paying the value, and we’ll transfer on with our lives.”

Rucker, greatest referred to as the frontman for Hootie & the Blowfish, has beforehand opened up about his drug use and wild occasion days. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, he shared, “Doing medicine and consuming each evening — I’ve achieved that.”

In a special interview with the outlet, he mentioned, “We did a four-day [contest to see] who may keep up the longest. God, we used to do dumb stuff.”

“I’m a multitude. I’m sad, I’m annoyed, and I’m excessive — on weed, mushrooms, and equal and extreme quantities of Ecstasy and cocaine,” he wrote in his memoir. “Tons of that sh-t. Tons. I keep excessive to flee, to keep away from coping with the place we’re as a band and who I’m as an individual, a husband, a dad.”

“To be trustworthy, I get excessive as a result of I wish to get excessive. I prefer it. Quite a bit. I do. And I hate coming down. Coming down, I crash, I get cloudy, after which I can get moody. Translation: I can get imply. So I keep excessive. It’s safer. Extra snug. I keep excessive to get by,” he recalled.

The 58-year-old singer credit his ex-wife, Beth Leonard, for pushing him to go away that way of life behind. The 2 share youngsters Jack, 19, and Daniella, 23, and Rucker acknowledges Beth’s affect in serving to him flip his life round.

“Once I give up, I give up,” he mentioned. “It was a kind of issues the place at some point I used to be simply advised that I needed to give up, so I walked away from it. And it was the very best factor that is ever occurred to me. I say on a regular basis that Beth saved my life when she did that.”