Jelly Roll was “so nervous” at the CMAs that the singer smashed his award

Jelly Roll’s CMA award was beautifully broken, as was his new album of the same name.

The country music star, 39, opened up to Jimmy Fallon on Monday night about how, after becoming one of the oldest people ever to win New Artist of the Year at the awards show in Nashville last year, he immediately “knocked” the glass prize.

Fallon then played a clip of the sound of breaking glass during a local live backstage broadcast of the show.

“Oh my God, Jelly Roll just broke his prize,” WKRN-TV reporter Stephanie Langston he is heard telling another reporter. “Yeah, it’s still sitting there. I’m pretty sure it’s his prize. He just dropped it on the floor.”

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Jelly Roll claimed his CMA award during his acceptance speech last year, moments before he broke it backstage. (Terry Wyatt/Getty Images)

“First of all, when it first fell, you could have heard a mouse pee on cotton,” Jelly Roll told Fallon. “I mean, there was silence, and right after you could hear a cricket pee, you heard a bunch of people go, ‘Aww.’

He explained that the weight of the prize and his sweaty palms probably played a role in the unfortunate incident.

“I was so excited and so nervous that I had the sweatiest, shakiest palms,” he said. “And the thing is, I’m not already a physically fit man, and that thing is hard. That thing was really hard.

“And I was so excited and I was going to switch it from one hand to the other to shake somebody’s hand and I just it boomed” he said. “And I was like… this is the story of my life, Jimmy. I’m finally getting my life together. I won the biggest award – best new artist – I was one of the oldest people ever to win it. I was 39 years old. I gave an impassioned speech, then came backstage and fumbled the ball. I just fumbled the ball!”

“No, no, be you. Never stop being you,” Fallon replied.

He explained that the weight of the prize and his sweaty palms probably played a role in the unfortunate incident. (WWE/Getty Images)

Jelly Roll added that he “campaigned” for the awards show to leave the broken one instead of getting a new one.

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“I was like, ‘I think it’s a great fit for me. I’m going to tape it together,” he told Fallon.

It seems that the broken prize was just a generic one.

A CMA official told The Tennessean that the award has not yet been engraved because the winners were not known in advance.

Jelly Roll also described a concert during his days as a struggling artist where only five people showed up, prompting him to invite all the partygoers into his van.

“There was one night we played outside of Sacramento, California in Orangeville, a little place called The Boardwalk,” he explained.

“I pulled up, there were five people and I felt so bad for the guy at the door and the sound guy and the concessions guy. They were all the same person. And I felt so bad for him that I said, “Don’t really open the door. And I brought all five people into my trailer.”

He told Fallon to imagine a “1975 Cheech and Chong RV.”

Jelly Roll said falling in love with his wife Bunnie XO helped him turn his life around. (Christopher Polk/Penske Media via Getty Images)

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“There was smoke coming out of the hood. There was smoke coming out of the inside,” he said of his old RV. “It smelled like Willie Nelson and cheap beer. Everything was bad, man. I actually just got all five of them on the stupid camper and took a quiet slog together. And I told them I’m sorry I can’t perform. .”

He explained that he canceled the show because he felt bad for the only guy working the show “because at that point we had to get two of the five people who bought a ticket to help him. He was working three jobs.”

Telling Fallon how he turned his life around after dozens of arrests in his teens and 20s, the 39-year-old said: “As cliche as it sounds, (the answer) is faith, finding love. It softened my heart. I fell in love with a woman and got married. I had a daughter. It changed my whole life.

“And it made me want to be a good father and a better man. And I knew I was just a bad person for so long, man. I just destroyed it. I was just a bad man and now I try to do. Turn it around, I’m a totally different guy, man.

He also talked about how he came up with the title of his new album and tour, “Beautifully Broken.”

“I think we’re all a little hurt, but I think we find beauty in that,” he said. “And we use kintsugi for the idea that they do in Japan that if something is worth saving when it breaks, they bring it back with the gold and polish it. That’s kind of our message, man, it’s worth saving for everybody.”

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“Beautifully Broken” is out on October 11th.