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'It was a really traumatic moment': Nick Jonas calls his infamous performance with Kelsea Ballerini 'tragic' and says that the backlash sent him to 'therapy'

2023-05-23 2 Dailymotion

Nick Jonas got candid on Monday with Dax Shepard when he opened up about his all-time 'worst moment' on stage. <br /><br />The 30-year-old musician – who recently shared that he and his brothers are prioritizing their mental health – sat down with the comedian for his Armchair Expert podcast and revealed that a 'tragic' performance with Kelsea Ballerini sent him to 'therapy.'<br /><br />The infamous 'debacle' happened in 2016 when Nick teamed up with Kelsea to perform her hit song Peter Pan at the Academy of Country Music Awards. <br /><br />After Ballerini belted out her part of Peter Pan, Nick claimed the stage with his electric guitar and did a painful guitar solo. <br /><br />'A really tragic guitar solo debacle … happened on live TV,' shared the S.O.S. singer. 'In retrospect, I can kind of laugh about how big I thought it was. But it did travel more than I wish it would have, and it did cause me to go to therapy.'<br /><br />The Jonas Brother took Shepard through his nightmare point by point, saying that the disaster happened even though he rehearsed the guitar solo 'a million times.'<br /><br />Nick said: 'I come out for my thing. I rehearsed it a million times. I’m feeling really confident about it — not even really thinking about it like it’s a thing that’s going to be problematic.<br /><br />'I started off, it was fine and as I walked towards her, I just went completely blank and I hit a wrong note and blacked out basically and clocked that it was wrong and I couldn’t stop.'<br /><br />The Sucker singer – who watched his wife Priyanka Chopra win the 2000 Miss World Pageant when he was seven years old – got roasted for the botched set on social media as it turned into a viral flub and made Nick the butt of endless online jokes. <br /><br />Merciless fan tutorials on how to play the wrong version of Kelsea's song Peter Pan became a particular low point for Jonas, who tried to have a sense of humor through the ordeal.<br /><br />Tweeting about the backlash at the time, he wrote: 'Just landed in London to all these posts from Sunday nights performance. So funny. Yes, I screwed up the solo thanks to a huge brain fart.'<br /><br />The hitmaker also retweeted a mock sheet of music that lampooned his performance, writing: 'We’re all human and s—t happens sometimes, but whoever made this is a genius.'<br /><br />Speaking to Shepard, the Camp Rock star confessed that he 'can't really figure out exactly what happened.

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