{"id":213531,"date":"2026-06-08T09:27:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T09:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/213531\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T09:27:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T09:27:23","slug":"morgan-wallen-appears-to-grab-phone-and-toss-it-during-pittsburgh-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/213531\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Wallen Appears to Grab Phone and Toss It During Pittsburgh Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"

Morgan Wallen<\/a>\u2018s Still the Problem Tour added another headline-making moment to its run on Friday night (June 5), when the country superstar grabbed a cellphone out of a security guard\u2019s hand mid-performance and flung it across the stage at Pittsburgh\u2019s Acrisure Stadium.<\/p>\n

Video of the incident, posted to TikTok by user jcroo419 <\/a>and rapidly circulated on social media, shows the guard holding up a phone while recording Wallen perform \u2014 reportedly at the request of a fan who had passed the device forward in the hopes the guard would hand it to the singer.<\/p>\n

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Instead, Wallen gestured toward the phone, walked away, then returned, removed it from the guard\u2019s hand and dramatically launched it across the stage. \u201cI get it\u2026 security should be doing security things, but\u2026,\u201d the user captioned the clip. Billboard has reached out to representatives for Wallen for comment.<\/p>\n

The phone-throwing came at the end of a turbulent week on the road for the I\u2019m the Problem tour. Just days earlier, Wallen experienced an onstage meltdown during his Denver show, when his piano appeared to malfunction <\/a>during a performance of \u201cSand in My Boots,\u201d forcing him to finish the song a cappella. He then walked back to the piano, shoved it about a foot, and flipped it over \u2014 breaking it on the stage.<\/p>\n

The next day, Wallen posted a TikTok video addressing the moment, showing himself at a new piano. \u201cHey, I just want you to know that right now this piano is working,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s what they told me last night, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wallen also abruptly canceled his Saturday show<\/a> in Pittsburgh, citing high winds and stage safety concerns rather than the swirling \u201cnonsense\u201d speculation about his behavior.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy team walked on the bus and told me they had been consulting with local officials and that I should cancel my show in Pittsburgh tonight,\u201d he explained in a video posted to his Instagram Stories<\/a>. \u201cThey said that there was going to be strong winds in the area\u2026 I\u2019ve been seeing a lot of nonsense about me that is simply not true, and I just wanted to clear the air.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Pittsburgh phone moment is the latest in a string of headline-grabbing incidents tied to Wallen\u2019s chart-dominating 2026. His current album I\u2019m the Problem, released in May 2025, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with the largest streaming week ever for a country album, and produced the Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit \u201cI\u2019m the Problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

He had previously topped the Hot 100 in 2024 with \u201cI Had Some Help\u201d featuring Post Malone<\/a>, which spent six weeks at the summit. One Thing at a Time (2023) spent 19 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, one of the longest-running chart-toppers of the streaming era.<\/p>\n

The Still the Problem Tour continues across the U.S. throughout the summer.<\/p>\n

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