{"id":2128785,"date":"2025-11-01T12:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T12:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2128785"},"modified":"2025-11-01T12:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T12:42:07","slug":"country-music-legend-was-seriously-contemplating-walking-away-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/country-music-legend-was-seriously-contemplating-walking-away-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Country music legend was \u2018seriously contemplating\u2019 walking away. Here\u2019s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"C2JBSW25H5HFHIK6RYNOBZYEZA\">Country music star Tim McGraw has had a rough go physically the past couple years, and things apparently got so bad that he contemplated giving up his career altogether. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"XHXC25E6ORA2LAU6OGIXSNBWRU\">McGraw, 58, recently made the revelation<b> <\/b><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/tim-mcgraw-nearly-walked-away-from-his-career-after-serious-health-struggles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/tim-mcgraw-nearly-walked-away-from-his-career-after-serious-health-struggles\"><b>in an interview with Fox News Digital. <\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"DCJUKJCPWBC2PM5IZFPJSBEAXE\">\u201cI\u2019ve had four back surgeries and double knee replacements, just in the last couple of years,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd my wife is going through quite a few surgeries \u2014 she\u2019s had five neck surgeries, and she\u2019s had a couple of hand surgeries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"M3CG2IKQLVGSLKB4KUITIWU57A\">That is when McGraw revealed just how bad things got. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"U77QV3WZ5ZEEPGKBGSU3AGO5GY\">\u201cThis spring, before I had my final back surgery, things were really bad,\u201d he said. \u201cSo I was seriously contemplating and figuring out how to walk away. I didn\u2019t want to, but I didn\u2019t think it was going to get better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ECMPUNA3C5GBXDZYXL2BEG7GNU\">It\u2019s actually not the first time that McGraw had talked about the fact that he was thinking about hanging it up. He discussed it earlier this year after having to take the end of last year off due to his injuries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"FLJDLOEJQBESTH6JPVDYAUBW24\">\u201cTo have almost a year of just sitting there (doing nothing), and I can tell you that after double knee replacements and three back surgeries and now a torn rotator cuff and a ruptured disc, there were times this year that I thought this might be it,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/lifestyle\/tim-mcgraw-shares-health-updates-155532736.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/lifestyle\/tim-mcgraw-shares-health-updates-155532736.html\"><b>he<\/b><\/a> said in an appearance on the \u2018Tracy Lawrence\u2019s Road House\u2019 podcast. \u201cThis might be time to hang it up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"BNOQMIDZKVD2JOZ44UX5RZZGDM\">The good news is that, for the time being, he appears to be in much better shape and is out there continuing with his musical career. <\/p>\n<section class=\"Stories-By-Section-Tag-module_wrapper__69Ed7 Stories-By-Section-Tag-module_pennlive__kbzmP\" data-gaid=\"\u00abR1n5b8m\u00bb\"\/><\/div>\n<p>If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation.<span> By using this site, you consent to our <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">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 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/span><\/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 www.pennlive.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country music star Tim McGraw has had a rough go physically the past couple years, and things apparently got so bad that he contemplated giving up his career altogether. McGraw, 58, recently made the revelation in an interview with Fox News Digital. \u201cI\u2019ve had four back surgeries and double knee replacements, just in the last [&hellip;]<\/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":[37633],"class_list":["post-2128785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-episodic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128785","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=2128785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2128786,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128785\/revisions\/2128786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2128785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2128785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2128785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}