Miranda Lambert Says She Threw Moonshine at Chad Kroeger

Miranda Lambert said she threw moonshine in Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger’s face during a long-rumored bar encounter, while denying that she punched him. Lambert recounted the incident on The New York Times Popcast, describing a late night when, she said, neither person was in their best state. Kroeger has not publicly responded to her account in the reports reviewed. Asked whether she hit Kroeger, Lambert said she did not. She acknowledged throwing moonshine in his face and said the drink wrecked his hair. Lambert also said the encounter was not playful. Asked whether the two were on good terms now, she said she did not know and did not care. Lambert’s statements provide her account of an incident that had circulated as a bar-fight rumor for more than a decade. The reported encounter took place in 2010, when she was married to country singer Blake Shelton. Details of how the confrontation began and what happened beyond Lambert’s description remain unverified in the supplied accounts. Shelton alluded to a confrontation involving Lambert in a 2014 interview, describing a bar encounter with the lead singer of a popular rock band and identifying the person by the initials C.K.