“All I could think was ‘I never got to hold my baby’.”
Jason Aldean’s pregnant wife Brittany has told how she thought of her and her husband’s unborn child as she recalled the night of the Las Vegas shooting.
The country musician was on stage for the final night of the Route 91 Harvest Festival when a gunman opened fire from a nearby hotel onto the crowd of 22,000 people, killing 58 and injuring over 500.
The mum-to-be thanked the first responders who “completely put everyone else’s lives before theirs” as she recalled how she had been in a tent with friends near the Mandalay Bay Resort when the gunfire began.
But Brittany, who is 30 weeks pregnant with the couple’s first child together, said her first instinct was to run to Jason.
She wrote:
“It’s been hard to process what happened the other night…still feel like I’m in a daze.
“First and foremost, THANK YOU to the first responders.
“It amazed me at the time and still continues to – these people completely put everyone’s lives before theirs and we are all forever grateful.
“When the gunfire started, I was not with Jason, but with some friends in a tent closer to Mandalay.
“As you can imagine, my first instinct was to run to him and his was the same.
“As we laid behind equipment onstage with some of our road family, bullets flying past, all I could think was ‘I never got to hold my baby’.
“We all made sure the others knew we loved them and then ran for cover where we stayed for the next couple hours.
“We were the lucky ones. I can’t put into words the pain and heartache we feel for the ones who are no longer with us.”
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