Miranda Lambert Finally Confirms the Chad Kroeger Bar Story — And It Wasn't a Punch

For more than a decade, country music fans have passed around a rumor that Miranda Lambert once punched Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger at a Nashville bar. She just set the record straight on The New York Times’Popcast, and the truth is better than the legend. She didn’t punch him. She threw moonshine in his face.“I threw moonshine on his face. I did do that,”she said, with the kind of confidence that makes you believe every word.

The scene: 2010, her 27th birthday, late night in Nashville. According to Lambert, Kroeger kept asking her to do shots and she kept turning him down. The night ended with moonshine and a soaked rock star. She described it as a late night where nobody was at their best. Fans may also remember Blake Shelton teased the story back in 2014 without ever naming Kroeger.

When asked whether she and Kroeger are on good terms today, Lambert’s answer was pure Miranda:“I don’t know if we’re fine now — but I don’t care.”Fifteen years of rumor, one answer, no regrets. Which celebrity feud do you want the full story on next?