Chris Stapleton Quotes Lainey Wilson As He Shares Unexpected ACM Awards Pic

Chris Stapleton quoted Lainey Wilson as he shared a photo from the 58th annual ACM Awards that has quickly garnered attention on social media. The “Tennessee Whiskey” superstar, who won the Entertainer of the Year award, was photographed helping to clean up the venue at the end of the night.

Nashville, Tennessee-based photographer John Shearer captured the photo at Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas. He shared the photo on Instagram, and among those who wrote comments applauding Stapleton’s character, the award-winning country giant’s wife, Morgane Stapleton, wrote: “😍 Love this so much.”

“If you’re gonna be a dreamer, you better be a doer,” Stapleton wrote, crediting Wilson, when he shared Shearer’s photo on his own Instagram account on Friday afternoon (May 12). Wilson’s quote came from her acceptance speech when she won the Female Artist of the Year award. She also took home awards in the Album of the Year, Music Event of the Year and Visual Media of the Year categories.

Stapleton’s Entertainer of the Year victory also scores him the Triple Crown Award, an incredibly rare achievement that only a handful of country music icons have won. Per the Academy of Country Music, the coveted award goes to an artist who receives an Entertainer of the Year win, along with previously-earned victories in their respective New Artist and Artist (male, female or duo or group) categories. The only other artists to receive that award are Miranda Lambert, Jason Aldean, Brooks & Dunn, Kenny Chesney, Mickey Gilley, Merle Haggard, Barbara Mandrell, and Carrie Underwood.

“Well, I am in shock. Truly. Thank you. By any imaginable metric, I don’t deserve this, but thank you,” Stapleton said in his acceptance speech as the crowd cheered. “There’s so many other great people in this category, and I get up there, and I stand up and I play music. That’s what I try to do every night. And I write songs and I make records. I’ve never thought of myself as somebody who would win this award, and so, I’m so grateful to each and every person who worked so hard at making us able to do what we do. My wife, Morgane, thank you. …I wanna say, my kids sitting at home, they give up a lot of my time, and a lot of my wife’s time, so we could go do this. This is for them.”