Luke Combs is still emotional about missing his 10-month-old son Beau’s birth.
When his wife, Nicole Combs, gave birth to their second child in August 2023, the country singer was on tour in Australia.
“I haven’t really told anybody that,” he admitted to Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe on Thursday, calling it a “really hard” truth to face.
Luke, 32, noted that Beau’s arrival was “one of the best and one of the worst days in [his] life” and is still “hard to wrap [his] head around.”
His voice broke as he detailed the unfortunate situation, telling listeners he woke up to a text from Nicole, 31, two and a half weeks before her due date.
The message read, “I’m so sorry, I really tried to not have the baby while you’re gone.”
The “Growin’ Up and Gettin’ Old” singer hinted that Nicole, who was with her mom and sister at the time, FaceTimed him while delivering Beau.
“I got to see him be born, which was awesome,” Luke, who is also the father of son Tex, 2, said.
The Grammy nominee praised both his and his partner’s “great support system[s],” clarifying that his “closest friends … work for” him and were present “through that whole thing.”
“It’s a defining moment in my life, for sure,” he said. “It sums up, in a lot of ways, some of the bad parts of the music business.
“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 have been together since 2016, with him getting down on one knee two years later.
The couple tied the knot in 2020 in Florida.
Tex was born in June 2022, and Beau joined the family in August of the following year.
Luke keeps the toddler’s faces off social media but posted rare photos of them via Instagram earlier this month to promote his new “Fathers & Sons” album.
