Luke Combs is reminiscing on the hard moment when he missed the birth of his and wife Nicole Hocking’s second child.
The country singer was on tour in when Nicole gave birth to son Beau, 10 months, in August 2023.
‘I haven’t really told anybody that,’ Luke shared with Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe on Thursday, labeling that fact a ‘really hard’ truth to face.
The 32-year-old confessed, ‘I’ll never forget the craziest day, probably, in my life … close to it. One of the best and one of the worst days in my life at the same time was, interestingly enough, and it’s so hard to wrap my mind around it.’
Luke detailed how he found out about his little one’s arrival in a text.
Luke Combs is reminiscing on the hard moment when he missed the birth of his and wife Nicole Hocking’s second child
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Nicole, 31, sent a message to him that read, ‘I’m so sorry, I really tried to not have the baby while you’re gone.’
‘And God, dude, it sucked,’ Luke elaborated.
However, Luke was still able to witness the birth via FaceTime.
‘I got to see him be born, which was awesome,’ he emotionally detailed. ‘He wasn’t born yet, but my wife went, she texted me on the way to the hospital, and he was two and a half weeks early, and I was supposed to be home and I wasn’t.’
Although Luke wasn’t in the hospital room, he took a moment to praise those who were there for him.
‘God, it was a hard day,’ he reflected, ‘but I was so lucky that a lot of my closest friends now work for me. And so I had a really great support system.’
Including Nicole’s mom.
‘Luckily, my mother-in-law came up for the month while I was gone, because, obviously, we have a 1-year-old and my wife is essentially nine months pregnant at the time, so thank goodness she was there,’ Luke told Zane. ‘My sister-in-law lives in Nashville as well. So my wife had a really great support system with her for that experience, which I’m very thankful for. That made it a lot easier. I had people with me, everything went great. No hiccups in the process or anything.’
But fans shouldn’t expect to hear his pain put into words on his new album Father & Son.
Tex, 2, and Beau, 10 months, play with toy trucks as seen on the country singer’s Instagram feed
The 32-year-old confessed, ‘I’ll never forget the craziest day, probably, in my life … close to it. One of the best and one of the worst days in my life at the same time was, interestingly enough, and it’s so hard to wrap my mind around it’
‘I didn’t cover that too much in this album because it’s really hard for me to deal with,’ the singer admitted. ‘It’s a defining moment in my life, for sure. It sums up, in a lot of ways, some of the bad parts of the music business.’
Giving insight into what his career entails, Luke explained, ‘Your schedule’s crazy, and you’re traveling all over the place. It’s not like I can drop everything I’m doing and fly 18 hours home.’
Luke and Nicole, who tied the knot in Florida in 2020, are also parents to son Tex, 2.
Although the couple has largely kept their sons out of the spotlight, Luke gave followers a rare glimpse of his boys on Instagram earlier this month.
In the first picture, Tex and Beau were on the floor next to one another as they played with toy trucks.
Another shot included Luke and Tex out in the yard, with the oldest child carrying a stick while the Beautiful Crazy artist looked down at him, smiling.
The Grammy nominee on daddy duty as he reads a book with one hand while holding Beau in his other arm
Luke put on his dad hat in many other photos within the carousel, like when he played guitar to Beau, held onto Tex in a golf cart and balanced a book in one hand and a sleeping Beau on his opposite arm.
A sweet family snap showed a previously pregnant Nicole standing in a sunflower field, gazing at her husband while he lifted Text into the air.
‘”The Man He Sees in Me.” Out now,’ Luke captioned the Instagram.
The father-of-two strums the guitar while his little one watches
Nicole also shared her own pictures of their family, posting a Polaroid shot of Beau’s feet while announcing his birth and a sweet birthday shout to her other half.
‘Happy Birthday to my favorite human!!!!’ she wrote in March. ‘The world is a better place with you in it. I love you sooo mucho! I hope you love Federico!!!’
Above the caption, Nicole included a compilation of pictures of the family of four.
Luke echoed his wife’s sentiments, writing in the comments section, ‘Thanks my love! Wouldn’t wanna live it with anyone else.’
Last July, it was the superstar’s turn to gush over Nicole on her 31st birthday.
‘Happy Birthday to the love of my life, the worlds best mom, and my best friend,’ Luke said on Instagram. ‘You shine so much light on my life everyday. It’s hard to explain how much you mean to me and to our little family. I love you!!!’