Country music star Morgan Wallen seemed more concerned with looking good in his 2024 mugshot than with being arrested, as recently released footage from last year’s arrest shows.
The resurfaced video captured the 32-year-old singer chopping it up with the authorities after he was arrested and taken to a local police facility in Nashville, Tennessee, to be booked. During his conversation with police officers, he made it abundantly clear that he wanted to look his best before he was processed for his arrest.
“And you say you have been arrested here before? There’s your picture if you want to see it from last time,” one officer asked Morgan, who responded with, “Do I gotta take another picture?” at the time of his 2024 arrest.
“Yeah, they’ll probably take an updated picture of you,” the officer explained to the entertainer. Morgan immediately asked, “Can you make sure I got my hair looking decent?”
Before last year, Morgan was arrested in 2020 in Nashville for public intoxication and disorderly conduct following his being ousted from Kid Rock’s bar.
Also seen later in the footage, once Morgan returned from the bathroom, he is captured in the back of the police squad car, asking officers with a giggle, “How do I look, man?”
The officer replied with a compliment, saying, “Good,” before Morgan added, “I’m gonna smile this time, too. Should I smile? I’m a lot happier than I was then. I used to be mad. I’m not no more. You ever been mad?”
The officer answered, “Oh yeah,” prompting Morgan to go on asking, “At the world? Me too.”
Morgan slightly changed the subject, but emphasized, “I’m not anymore. I went to church for [the] fourth time in a row today.”
For the 2024 arrest, Morgan was arrested and charged with felony reckless endangerment initially, before it was reduced to two misdemeanor counts.
He pleaded guilty in December 2024, and was sentenced to seven days in a DUI education center along with two years of supervised probation.
“Mr. Wallen has cooperated fully with authorities throughout these last eight months, directly communicating and apologizing to all involved. Mr. Wallen remains committed to making a positive impact through his music and foundation,” Morgan’s lawyer Worrick Robinson IV said in a statement to PEOPLE then.