Even someone as seemingly widely loved as Lainey Wilson catches flak on social media. Some of that criticism comes from those that bizarrely question whether or not her trademark Southern drawl is faked or at least exaggerated. Wilson has addressed this discourse at times, and she hasn't minced her words.
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"I have had a lot of folks, not necessarily in the industry but just in general, comment on social media and stuff and say 'there's no way that she really talks like that.' Well, let me just dial up my mama and my daddy and my granny and everybody else and let you have a conversation with them. Then you'll realize that what you see is what you get," she told the Associated Press in 2022. "The way that I talk is the way that I sing. Like it or lump it. The haters can say anything to me. They can say, 'you're ugly, you can't sing,' but when they start talking about my accent? Ooh, it makes me mad, because then I start thinking that you're talking about my family."
As someone who's proud of her Baskin, La. upbringing and open about her family's impact on her life and career, Wilson takes these rumors to heart.
"That's why I don't look at the comments anymore. Because when they start talking about my accent, I start feeling like they're talking about my family and I'm ready to fight," she said during a 2023 appearance on The Bobby Bones Show.
Wilson also told Bones that it'd be hard for anyone to stick with a fake accent at all waking hours, and that hopefully, when she sounds exactly the same 30 years from now, haters will stop hating on her genuine Louisiana drawl.
