Yahoo Lifestyle ‘Little Big Town’ Singer Shares Major Family Secret Her Own Parents Didn’t Know
Kimberly Schlapman shared a huge family secret on national television on Jan. 28, revealing something she said only “four people on the whole Earth” knew about up until that moment.
The Little Big Town singer appeared as a guest host on the fourth hour of the Today show where she revealed a secret so big, even her parents didn’t know about it.
The singer told Jenna Bush Hager that after deciding to share the secret on the show, she quickly called her parents so they wouldn’t be blindsided.
“I was like, ‘Mama, is Daddy there? Can he hear me? I have to tell you something.’ And I told her, and she’s like, ‘What?’ And then finally I got more nervous and nervous, and then she started giggling,” Schlapman said before diving into the story further.
“My husband, I call him Schlap. My last name is Schlapman. My late husband’s name was Steve. This one’s name is Steve. I can’t call both of my beautiful husbands Steve. So this is Schlap. So Schlap and I got married in November 2006. But six months earlier, we eloped to Vegas,” she revealed.
At that point, Bush Hager interjected and asked if Schlapman’s parents really didn’t know. “Nobody knew. No one knew,” the singer responded.
Bush Hager then teased her co-host, asking, “Wait, y’all went to Vegas, you had a couple drinks. And what happened?”
Schlapman clarified that there wasn’t alcohol involved in the decision and that she and her husband planned to elope before they went to Las Vegas.
“We planned that we were going to go because we were meeting some family out at the big, beautiful lake out there. And so Schlap was like, ‘What if we go a day early to get married?’ And I was like, 'I’ve never done anything bad. Yes! Yes!’” she detailed.
As for the other two people that knew the story before Schlapman shared it on the air, that honor goes to Schlapman’s bandmate Karen Fairchild, and her sister.
“My parents found out 10 minutes ago and I’m still shaking thinking about it. But it’s nice to be free of that,” Schlapman said before Bush Hager asked if her kids knew the story. “Not ‘til now. Yeah, not many folks know,” responded Schlapman.
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