On Sunday, several stars in attendance at the awards show wore black ribbons to honor the victims from Monday's mass shooting at the Nashville, Tennessee private school. The shooting, which marked Tennessee's deadliest mass shooting in history, left three children and three adults dead, in addition to the shooter.
"You know why it is important? Today is Psalm Sunday and I'm a very religious person and what better way to honor them and support them," Lynyrd Skynyrd's Johnny Van Zant tells ET about the band's decision to wear ribbons on the red carpet. "Everybody say prayers for the family. They need lifting up."
Agreeing with his bandmate, Rickey Medlocke shares his sympathy for those mourning loved ones, saying,"I feel for the ones that lost their loved ones... My heart goes out to all of them and prayers for them.", with the singer sharing how"heartbreaking" it felt to witness a tragedy so close to home.
"It almost seems [that] with everything that was lost last week, it almost seems a little bit backward to be able to come together and celebrate music tonight," she says to ET. "But country music is good at bringing us together and creating space for healing. And that's what we'll be able to do tonight."
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