Jelly Roll’s wild moment inspired Christian singer to set boundaries

Brandon Lake's collaboration with Jelly Roll connected his caller album, "King of Hearts," inspired him to acceptable much boundaries successful his ain life. 

"He had told maine however helium threw his telephone successful the stream aft his Bridgestone amusement successful Nashville. I was like, ‘Tell maine much astir that,'" Lake told Fox News Digital. "He's like, 'I'm calling you from a flip telephone close now.' And literally, due to the fact that of that, I got a caller phone. It's not a flip phone, but I needed to get a caller number. I needed it to benignant of absorption successful connected my ellipse of people."

Jelly Roll went viral past December erstwhile helium threw his telephone into a river, admitting that helium felt overwhelmed astatine the clip astir each the calls and texts helium was getting.

Lake told Fox News Digital that excessively galore radical had entree to his aged fig arsenic helium got much successful.

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Brandon Lake's collaboration with Jelly Roll connected his caller album, "King of Hearts," inspired him to acceptable much boundaries successful his ain life.  (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Stagecoach)

"And portion I would emotion to beryllium friends with everyone… the bigger things person gotten, the smaller I've had to go," helium explained. "And truly marque definite I person the close radical around," adding that he's started mounting boundaries. 

He released his caller medium "King of Hearts" this month. 

"I've been looking guardant to this time for a agelong time," helium said of the medium release. "Funny enough, I got this tattoo a portion backmost connected my finger, King of Hearts, and conscionable arsenic similar a reminder. More than focusing connected the products and the things that I'm making, that I beryllium to curate to people, to curate God, but besides like, ministry's astir people, I'm present to scope people, emotion connected people, service people, and I wanna beryllium a king of hearts, and shepherd radical well, nary substance what I'm doing." 

While Lake loves singing astir his faith, there’s 1 happening helium says helium wouldn’t sing astir erstwhile asked. 

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"I wouldn't sing astir drugs or, you know… I'm definite there's plentifulness of things. I conscionable can't truly think. I bash cognize what I privation to sing astir and that's my faith, that's what my household does. I wanna sing astir things that person changed my beingness and I cognize that tin alteration different people's lives." 

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Brandon Lake released his caller medium "King of Hearts" this month.  (Steven Ferdman/Getty Images)

Lake said Jelly Roll archetypal heard his caller opus "Hard Fought Hallelujah" connected TikTok earlier helium decided to collaborate with him connected it. 

He said erstwhile helium archetypal wrote the opus helium wasn’t definite if "the satellite would perceive it." 

Lake connected the screen of his "King of Hearts" album.  (Sadie Schwanberg)

"But erstwhile you unrecorded with it for a while, and you amusement a fewer friends, the mode they respond to it kinda usually tells you a lot, and we knew it was special," helium continued. "And putting it out, I'll archer you, I would ne'er would person imagined that Jelly Roll would person said yes. And the coolest portion of the communicative is that helium heard that opus connected TikTok. Before I adjacent asked him to leap connected it and fell successful emotion with the song, was waiting for it to travel out."

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By the clip helium reached retired to inquire Jelly Roll if he’d privation to grounds it with him "because I conscionable felt similar the lyrics would truly resonate with his story, helium was like, ‘Oh, I cognize what opus this is. I'm definitely, I would emotion to beryllium a portion of it.’ And past it's conscionable produced an astonishing friendship, and he's similar a member to maine now."

He and Jelly Roll person bonded implicit being husbands and fathers, and helium said the state prima has fixed him tons of encouragement successful his career. 

Brandon Lake with woman Brittany Ann Schneider astatine the 11th Annual K-LOVE Fan Awards astatine The Grand Ole Opry successful 2024.  (Jason Kempin/Getty Images)

Lake said helium began to person his archetypal intelligence wellness struggles a fewer years agone aft helium finished his archetypal tour. 

He said his household thought they were doing the close thing, heading consecutive for a household abrogation to Disney World, but helium hadn’t had clip to decompress aft the tour, and helium suffered his archetypal panic attack. 

"Well, a batch of people, Disney World's similar heaven. To me, it was hellhole connected world astatine that infinitesimal successful my life," helium said. "I didn't person capable clip to conscionable similar process, right? Everything, each my dreams were coming true. I conscionable wrote with each my heroes. Just came location from my archetypal circuit and I conscionable crashed. And 1 happening I had to larn was conscionable precise physically, I had adrenaline fatigue. And erstwhile you are successful adrenaline fatigue, your affectional absorption strategy is nether attack. Even your immune strategy is nether attack. You tin get sick, each of that."

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He said helium began to person scary thoughts and each insecurity was amplified. 

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"I isolated myself alternatively of moving to assemblage and moving to my woman and saying, ‘Hey, I'm having immoderate chaotic thoughts,’" helium explained. "And I went into a full-blown panic attack, and it was conscionable similar the dependable of the force was truthful overwhelming. Every prevarication and insecurity was truthful overwhelming." 

He added, "I had a person nonstop maine a dependable memo of him praying implicit maine due to the fact that I was excessively prideful to prime up the phone. I thought, I'm gonna hole this myself. And erstwhile helium prayed implicit maine and I listened to it, I broke. I broke. In a large way."

Brandon Lake said surviving connected a workplace has been therapeutic.  (Terry Wyatt/Getty Images)

Lake yet told his woman astir what he’d been struggling with, "and past I benignant of began my journey, met with, started going to counseling and conscionable realizing the toll, that the gait of beingness I was in, similar what it was having connected me, negatively. And that, I needed to find tools to enactment successful a steadfast place."

Since then, Lake said he’s hired a wellness and show manager who helps him "spiritually, emotionally, physically." He’s changed his diet, and helium wears an aura ringing to show his slumber and HRV. 

Lake said arsenic his occurrence grew helium had to constrictive his ellipse of people.  (Sadie Schwanberg)

"Spiritually speaking, though, I was trying to capable this void and pursuit different excitement," helium explained. "And erstwhile I came location and I didn't person different happening to beryllium excited about, I would effort to capable it with adjacent bully things, similar clip with my woman and different things."

He said it got to the constituent wherever helium was truthful "needy" that his woman told him "’Babe, I cannot fill. I can't beryllium for you what you need.’ And truthful my counsellor said 1 of the astir simple but adjuvant things. And helium said, ‘Brandon, you request to relearn however to spell to God archetypal and most.’ First and most, and I wasn't taking these things to God, and my individuality was wrapped up successful the things I was doing implicit who he's called maine to be." 

He said surviving connected a workplace has besides been therapeutic. 

Lake says helium loves singing astir his faith.  (Terry Wyatt/Getty Images)

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"Even moving retired to the state has been precise healing, and I needed to bash thing other of circuit and the large platform," the Christian worship vocalist explained. "I request to get my hands dirty. I bought a tractor. I chopped the grass. I moved immoderate dirt, and it's been precise healing." 

He added, "We’ve got cows. We person galore donkeys. Tomorrow — we had a tempest travel done — truthful tomorrow, I volition spell from New York City to backmost location successful the sticks extracurricular of Charleston, South Carolina, and we had a tempest travel through, and a clump of trees fell. So, I volition beryllium chainsawing immoderate trees and making firewood and doing conscionable precise normal, yeah, conscionable immoderate soiled work."

Lake says moving to a workplace has been therapeutic for him.  (Sadie Schwanberg)

Lake said that volition "do much for my bosom and my caput than a batch of things retired there. And it's conscionable brainsick however simple. I mean, there's doctors prescribing radical with slump clip successful the woods alternatively of pills, similar clip successful nature. And I deliberation God made it that mode for a reason, made america that way, for reasons wherever it's, man, conscionable being by the creek volition revive you."

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"No one has conscionable encouraged maine much than him and conscionable being like, ‘Dude, you've got what it's, what it takes.' And I've stepped connected immoderate truly scary stages successful the past fewer months, and he's conscionable believed successful maine each measurement of the way. And it's conscionable been, it's been incredible." 

"King of Hearts" is retired now.