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Country music singer Granger Smith\u2019s wife, Amber Smith, opened up recently about the dark days that followed the death of the couple\u2019s young son six years ago.<\/p>\n
River Smith, 3, died in a drowning accident, and in a recent piece with People Magazine, Amber revealed that Granger attempted to take his own life in the days that followed. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe was out with the guys in Boise, Idaho, one night for a show,\u201d she told People. <\/b><\/a>\u201cThey walked over to the local bar, laughed, and told old stories, all while drinking more than he had since River died. When the evening wrapped up, he found himself drunkenly walking back to his tour bus alone.\u201d<\/p>\n Amber told People that Granger had not been drunk \u201cin a really long time,\u201d so he grabbed his weed pen \u201cand took a hit, hoping it would bring him out of his drunken state a bit, but nothing changed.<\/p>\n \u201cVisions of River facedown in the pool assaulted his thoughts and lies pierced his conscience that he was a failure as a father, that he had let River down,\u201d she said. \u201cIn a moment of utter despair, he fumbled for the gun he kept in the drawer by his bed for safety on the road, aiming to end the pain.\u201d<\/p>\n She said that she remains heartbroken that her husband \u201cfelt like this was the only way out.\u201d<\/p>\n Amber and Granger have three other children \u2014 London, 14, Lincoln, 11, and Maverick, 4.<\/p>\n \u201cThat night my sweet, incredible husband, the wonderful father of my kids, put a cold Glock 9mm into his mouth,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n \u201cI wish I could have grabbed him, shaken him, and said, \u2018You\u2019re a good father! I love you! We\u2019ve got this! This isn\u2019t the way!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Thankfully, Amber said, her husband realized the voice in his head wasn\u2019t his own.<\/p>\n \u201cIn that moment of crying out to God, the visions suddenly stopped,\u201d she said. \u201cThe gun slipped out of his hand and he collapsed to the floor, falling asleep in a puddle of his own tears, full clothed on the bathroom floor of his bus.\u201d<\/p>\n Granger Smith, 46, is now a Southern Baptist minister, who also hosts a nationally syndicated radio show, \u201cAfter Midnight with Granger Smith.\u201d<\/p>\n If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.pennlive.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Country music singer Granger Smith\u2019s wife, Amber Smith, opened up recently about the dark days that followed the death of the couple\u2019s young son six years ago. River Smith, 3, died in a drowning accident, and in a recent piece with People Magazine, Amber revealed that Granger attempted to take his own life in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2061851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061851","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=2061851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2061852,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061851\/revisions\/2061852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2061851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2061851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2061851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}