Morgan Wallen throws phone at Pittsburgh concert, cancels

Country music star Morgan Wallen sparked controversy during a concert in Pittsburgh on Friday, June 5, after a video showed him grabbing a cellphone from a security guard and throwing it across the stage. The incident occurred at Acrisure Stadium as part of his ongoing "Still the Problem" tour.

Video of the event, widely shared on social media, shows a security guard holding a phone aloft near the stage. According to fan accounts posted online, the device had been passed forward by an audience member with the hope it would be handed to the singer. Instead, Wallen approached, took the phone from the guard's hand, and hurled it. The guard appeared not to immediately realize what had happened.

This marks the second headline-making onstage incident involving Wallen in a week. Days earlier, during a performance in Denver, the singer flipped over a piano that appeared to have malfunctioned during his song "Sand in My Boots." He addressed that incident in a subsequent TikTok video, standing next to a different piano and stating, "Hey, I just want you to know that right now this piano is working. That's what they told me last night, too."

The phone-throwing episode preceded a scheduled...