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Following his parents’ divorce, a teenage Zach Bryan lived with his dad Dewayne, but he remained close to his mom Annette. In his 2022 New York Times interview, the country singer referred to her as “an Oklahoma sweetheart, homecoming queen cheerleader, like a small-town freaking famous person almost.”
This was six years after Annette, who’d struggled with alcohol misuse, sadly died, something he believes made him grow up a lot quicker than he would have otherwise. He said, “I think my mom dying really solidified the darkness in life to me. It opened that thing in you that’s like, ‘Hey, be a man now.’” The tragedy also inspired the star to pursue a degree in psychology, remarking, “I just wanted to figure out why my mom was the way she was, you know? Like the most beautiful lady of all time and also kind of tortured herself.”
However, Zach admits that he finds it hard to open up about his feelings now: “People say I repress. And I’m like, ‘No, the person that I want to tell all this stuff to is dead. And you don’t deserve me weighing in on my feelings to you.’” As well as naming his first album “DeAnn” in honor of Annette’s middle name, he also referenced her in his 2023 single, “Dawns” (“I miss my mother’s Southern drawl/And her praying through the walls in the evening”).
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