Elle King Sips Water Throughout First Gig Since Drunken Dolly Parton Tribute

Elle King is again to performing stay, getting on a stage in Arizona … her first time since her “hammered” debacle on the Grand Ole Opry throughout an evening celebrating Dolly Parton‘s birthday.

TMZ obtained this footage of Elle’s present Friday night time in Tempe, AZ … the place she was one of many singers taking part in the Additional Innings Competition.

Followers seen the nation singer saved a bottled water inside arms attain all night time … and took a number of swigs of it throughout her set.

It is a whole 180 from when Elle was final seen on the Opry in Nashville again in late January. She was admittedly drunk as she forgot the words to certainly one of Dolly’s tunes — which would not be the worst factor ever, however she adopted that up by making up jibberish lyrics and berating the viewers.

After one tune, she barked on the crowd, “I’m not even gonna f***ing lie … y’all bought tickets for this s***, you ain’t getting your money back.”

Days after that s***present, she abruptly postponed her next scheduled gig in Texas, however by no means supplied any cause. She’s been out of the general public eye since then.

Elle was shown a ton of grace by Dolly herself, who advised Additional … Elle is a superb woman who simply had a bit an excessive amount of to drink. She additionally urged followers to “forgive that and forget it and move on, ’cause [Elle] felt worse than anyone ever could.”

We’re advised Elle didn’t make any reference to the Dolly catastrophe throughout her present Friday night time … nonetheless she did sing songs about boozing — like “Chain Smokin’, Hard Drinkin’ Woman” and “Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home)” — she’s a rustic singer, in any case.

That being mentioned, she saved it sober on stage, and by all counts sounded nice.