{"id":127972,"date":"2024-09-28T10:33:38","date_gmt":"2024-09-28T10:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/28\/drugs-had-overtaken-waylon-jennings-grandsons-life-exclusive\/"},"modified":"2024-09-28T10:33:38","modified_gmt":"2024-09-28T10:33:38","slug":"drugs-had-overtaken-waylon-jennings-grandsons-life-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/28\/drugs-had-overtaken-waylon-jennings-grandsons-life-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Drugs Had \u2018Overtaken\u2019 Waylon Jennings\u2019 Grandson&#8217;s Life (EXCLUSIVE)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"track-ga\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeandstylemag.com\/tags\/country-music-17305\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Waylon Jennings<\/strong><\/a>\u2019 grandson <strong>Whey<\/strong> has followed in the footsteps of the outlaw country legend in more ways than music \u2014 as he\u2019s battled back from drug addiction to find sobriety!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having gotten clean four years ago, Whey \u2014 whose father is Waylon\u2019s late son, <strong>Terry<\/strong> \u2014 has released <em>Jekyll &amp; Hyde<\/em>, his first full-length album.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 42-year-old frankly admits getting hooked on drugs in high school, notching several failed rehab stints and carrying a monkey on his back for most of his life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whey\u2019s granddad Waylon \u2014 who passed away from diabetes complications in 2002 at 64 \u2014 started abusing amphetamines while rooming with fellow addict <strong>Johnny Cash<\/strong> in the 1960s.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And two decades later, the \u201cGood Hearted Woman\u201d singer was snorting $1,500 in cocaine per day before going cold turkey in 1984!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But Whey insists, \u201cI\u2019m not gonna blame my drug addictions on my grandfather. For me to blame my decisions on my family tree would be selfish and foolish.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The talented Texan reveals his bad habits had turned him into a monster \u2014 but a 2020 trip to rehab finally turned the tide.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, a pal spills the reformed rabble-rouser may still have a chance to scale the same heights of country music as his famous grandfather!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhey is getting a late start. Drugs had so overtaken his life, his music just wasn\u2019t a priority for a long time,\u201d the friend dishes. \u201cBut Waylon didn\u2019t clean up his act until he was in his 50s \u2014 so in some ways Whey feels like he\u2019s got a head start!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeandstylemag.com\/posts\/drugs-had-overtaken-waylon-jennings-grandsons-life-exclusive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waylon Jennings\u2019 grandson Whey has followed in the footsteps of the outlaw country legend in more ways than music \u2014 as he\u2019s battled back from drug addiction to find sobriety!\u00a0 Having gotten clean four years ago, Whey \u2014 whose father is Waylon\u2019s late son, Terry \u2014 has released Jekyll &amp; Hyde, his first full-length album.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":127973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-127972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}