Morgan Wade: 5 Things To Know About The Country Singer Who’s BFFs With Kyle Richards

is “going really hard” in 2023. The 28-year-old country music star behind the “Wilder Days” hit is enjoying as much of the year as she can before undergoing a double mastectomy as a precaution against breast cancer. “I had the BRCA gene,” she told at London’s Highways Festival on May 20.

“It’s a breast cancer gene, so I’m having a double mastectomy in November. I’m going really hard up until November, so then November and December, I have off to rest. ” BRCA1 and BRCA2 are genes that produce proteins that help repair damaged DNA, according to the .

However, when someone inherits a harmful variant of one of these genes, they have an increased risk of several cancers, most notably breast and ovarian cancers. Morgan is not leaving anything up to chance. “I’m feeling fine.

I’m just pissed I won’t be able to work out because I really like working out,” she told about her upcoming operation, adding that she usually works out seven days a week. “That’s my only qualm about it. ” More so, Morgan has become ‘ new bestie and has taken to social media in recent months to share a with the star.

Below are five things to know about the songstress! Morgan’s career began in 2018 when she was a freshman in college. She recorded and released her debut album. While performing at the ’18 FloydFest, ‘s sound engineer gave her album to , guitarist for Isbell’s band, .

Sadler and producer knew that Morgan had , and they worked with her to put together , her debut major-label album. Thirty Tigers put it out in 2021, which earned major critical acclaim. “With insider trade HITS proclaiming, ‘Imagine Kris Kristofferson as a Gen Z woman,’ raving, ‘she sounds like she’s singing from the depths of history,’ and offering, ‘Wade has a voice like a jagged blade, sharp enough to draw blood but lustrous under the light,’ landed hard and true,” reads the .

gave a Top 40 hit for Morgan. “Wilder Days” peaked at No. 36 on the Hot 100.

“The first time I sang in front of people I just went down into this basement with five random men that I found on Craigslist to start a band,” Morgan told . At the time, she was a 19-year-old student attending college in Roanoke, Virginia. “I just remember there was a guy sitting out front with sunglasses on at eight o’clock at night, smoking weed.

That was really normal. And I just went on in the house, and they were like, ‘Yeah, down in the basement. ’ So I went down there, and there were five guys down there.

But, here we are. ” The Craigslist band helped Morgan record her first album, the self-released . She told that the album came from a moment of heartbreak after dumping a boyfriend.

“I just got it in my head that I could form a band,” Wade recalls. “It would either piss him off or get him back, either one. ” Not only is Morgan famous in her own right, but she’s also one of Kyle Richards’ new pals! In Dec.

2022, the star even took to Instagram to wish Morgan a happy birthday. “Happy birthday @morganwademusic May all your dreams continue to come true! Keep shining We love you,” the Bravo personality captioned the . More recently, on Apr.

28, 2023, Morgan took to Instagram to hilariously mock Kyle’s lavish Birkin bag. “I ain’t first class but I ain’t white trash. When @kylerichards18 leaves her bag to go to the bathroom,” she captioned .

The ladies even took a chic vacation to Mexico in Jan. 2023 (see . ) In May 2023, Morgan revealed to that she found out that she has “the BRCA gene.

” Everyone has two copies of these genes – one inherited from each parent, per the National Cancer Institute. BRCA1 and BRCA2 are genes that help repair damaged DNA, and are considered tumor suppressor genes. Yet, when they have certain changes – considered harmful variants or mutations – they can develop cancers.

People who inherited harmful variants are at risk of several cancers, most notably breast and ovarian cancer. People with harmful variants of BRCA1/BRCA2 tend to develop cancer at younger ages. “My mom had [cancer], and my little cousin is going to get it, but I’ll be fine,” said Morgan.

She opted to undergo a double mastectomy as a preventative measure. named as the Best Country Album of 2021. The follow-up, , was set for an August 2023 release date.

“With ‘Psychopath,’ we’ve done a really good job of moving on from to the next stage without it being so crazy different,” she told in May 2023. “I’m excited. Every song on there has its own sound and is completely different.

… [The album] goes into where I’m at in life right now. Which is so busy. It’s about growing up and being older and starting to feel like, ‘Is it time to settle down?’ I think you’ll see a lot of that on the record.

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