{"id":2035920,"date":"2025-09-20T00:58:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T00:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2035920"},"modified":"2025-09-20T00:58:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T00:58:51","slug":"carrie-underwood-mourns-unfathomable-loss-of-friend-theres-a-hole-that-wont-ever-go-away-star-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/carrie-underwood-mourns-unfathomable-loss-of-friend-theres-a-hole-that-wont-ever-go-away-star-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrie Underwood Mourns \u2018Unfathomable\u2019 Loss of Friend: There\u2019s a \u2018Hole\u2019 That \u2018Won\u2019t Ever Go Away\u2019 \u2013 Star Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20962\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2570px;\"><figcaption class=\"mtSubImg\"><span class=\"wp-desc-text\"\/> <span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mickey Bernal\/AdMedia\/Newscom\/The Mega Agency<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Carrie Underwood <\/strong>is grieving.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, September 18, songwriter <strong>Brett James<\/strong> \u2014 who co-wrote multiple hits for the 42-year-old country star, including \u201cJesus Take The Wheel\u201d \u2014 perished in a plane crash in Franklin, North Carolina, according to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fox17.com\/news\/local\/grammy-winning-songwriter-brett-james-dies-in-plane-crash-near-north-carolina-school-franklin-cirrus-sr22t-thursday-plane-crash-news-tennessee-google-trends\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WZTV Nashville<\/a>. He was 57 years old.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/starmagazine.com\/american-idol-producer-teases-changes-says-judge-carrie-underwood-is-only-going-to-get-better\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The <em>American Idol <\/em>winner<\/a> took to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DOyxWbWgO7T\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> on Friday, September 19, and shared multiple photos of her and James in an Instagram carousel along with a lengthy caption honoring him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome things are just unfathomable. The loss of Brett James to his family, friends and our music community is too great to put into words,\u201d Underwood wrote in part.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20965\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1450px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20965\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.starmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/550690120_18534034147051986_5620594675725229028_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/550690120_18534034147051986_5620594675725229028_n.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/starmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/550690120_18534034147051986_5620594675725229028_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/starmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/550690120_18534034147051986_5620594675725229028_n-1024x1021.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/starmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/550690120_18534034147051986_5620594675725229028_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/550690120_18534034147051986_5620594675725229028_n-768x766.jpg 768w, https:\/\/starmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/550690120_18534034147051986_5620594675725229028_n-80x80.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\"\/><figcaption class=\"mtSubImg\"><span class=\"wp-desc-text\"\/> <span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Instagram \/ carrieunderwood<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/starmagazine.com\/carrie-underwood-gives-fans-a-peek-into-her-relaxing-weekend-on-her-tennessee-farm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The top-charting artist<\/a> also revealed how she and James bonded over their shared faith.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe even had the pleasure of singing together at church. My favorite songs to sing of ours are the ones that he or we wrote about Jesus because the thoughts and feelings behind them are so genuine and pure,\u201d Underwood penned. \u201cI won\u2019t ever sing one note of them again without thinking of him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrett\u2019s passing is leaving a hole in all of us that I fear won\u2019t ever go away,\u201d she added. \u201cIt will forever be a reminder that this life is but a moment\u2026we have to make the most of each day we\u2019re given here on earth. Each day is a gift.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source starmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mickey Bernal\/AdMedia\/Newscom\/The Mega Agency Carrie Underwood is grieving. On Thursday, September 18, songwriter Brett James \u2014 who co-wrote multiple hits for the 42-year-old country star, including \u201cJesus Take The Wheel\u201d \u2014 perished in a plane crash in Franklin, North Carolina, according to WZTV Nashville. He was 57 years old. The American Idol winner took to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2035921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[24003],"class_list":["post-2035920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Carrie-Underwood-Mourns-\u2018Unfathomable-Loss-of-Friend-Theres-a-\u2018Hole.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2035920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2035921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2035920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2035920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2035920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}