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Ingrid Andress Talks Frankly About the National Anthem That Made Her ‘America’s Punching Bag,’ What She Learned in Rehab, and Being ‘Terrified’ Before Her Joyful Do-Over: ‘You Can’t Mess It Up Twice’
Ingrid Andress talks about being 'America's punching bag' after a national anthem flop, heading straight to rehab, and her recent redemptive do-over.
Andress, one of the most acclaimed young singer-songwriters in country music this past decade, had made headlines last summer for doing a notoriously off-key version of the anthem prior to the MLB Home Run Derby. A few days after successfully pulling off the anthem in Denver, Andress sat down with Variety at her West Hollywood hotel to talk in detail about what was going wrong with the first “incident” … and what has gone right since she flew directly from the MLB debacle to a rehab facility. After seven months of undergoing the right kind of blackout — that is, staying completely out of sight of the public — she’s slowly but surely reintroducing herself, with steps back into the limelight like this past weekend’s appearance on the Grand Ole Opry and a tender new single just released by Warner Music, “Footprints.” Her third album will follow some time later this year.
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