Country singer knew she had no choice but to live her life as an out and proud queer woman, exclusively telling that “country music is about the truth.” Getting to that point took time, however. Eden confessed to during CMA Fest in Nashville on Saturday, June 8 that she was told coming out would end her prospects as a country artist.
“There has been such little representation [of LGBTQIA+ people] for such a long time, especially in country music, and there hasn’t been visibility because, you know, when people started to come out, they were told that you would lose your career,” she said. “I mean, I was told I would lose my career in the beginning.” Eden, 35, was cowed by that fear at first, saying she kept her relationship with wife under wraps for five years.
Since coming out, she’s found an extremely supportive community that includes some of the biggest names in country music. Eden’s wedding to Hoover was , whose husband sang the couple down the aisle to his version of the Bob Dylan-penned standard “Make You Feel My Love.” “Trisha and Garth have been such incredible supporters,” Eden told .
“When I sang ‘She’s in Love With the Girl’ with her at the [Grand Old] Opry, we had just gotten engaged, so we get done with the Opry and we just had so many emotions going on and Trisha was like, ‘Girl, what am I doing at this wedding? Am I a flower girl? Am I a bridesmaid? Do I officiate? Like what can I do?’” Yearwood and Brooks have long been .
