Darius Rucker Breaks Silence On His Arrest
Darius Rucker has broken his silence on his arrest from February 2024 on misdemeanor drug charges outside of Nashville. This week, while promoting his new book, Darius broke his silence…
Darius Rucker has broken his silence on his arrest from February 2024 on misdemeanor drug charges outside of Nashville. This week, while promoting his new book, Darius broke his silence on the Today Show.
Darius said that it "went down" and that "we handled it." He added that his lawyers are taking care of it.
He described the situation before he was pulled over by police, noting, "It was funny because I was going to a friend's house. They were moving and asked me to take some stuff." After he was pulled over, they let him go.
Rucker explained, "And it was a year later that I get a phone call that said there was a warrant for my arrest. So I went down. Fifty-seven years, I've never seen the inside of a jail cell."
The charges are still pending. He was booked on two counts of simple possession/casual exchange of a controlled substance and one count of violating the state's vehicle registration law.
His attorney told Today in February that the singer "is fully cooperating with authorities related to misdemeanor charges."
Rucker wanted his kids grown before he wrote and released his new memoir, Life's Too Short: A Memoir by Darius Rucker. The book came out on Tuesday (5/28).
Darius told us, "I always said I wouldn't write the book until they were adults. When my son turned seventeen or eighteen, he started wanting to talk about it. I've been honest with them when they were old enough to talk about it; I was just honest with them."
He noted it was something his son Jack told him that put his mind at ease on the book, "I would always tell them, 'You shouldn't do this,' and they understood. And one of the things I was so worried about was that I was so honest about it. He was like 'Dad: who's gonna be surprised that rock stars party? That's not breaking news to anybody!' And I was like, 'You're right.'"
When he announced the book, Rucker said, "If I look back at my life and try to see into my past, everything seems blurry. But then I lean in and start to hear something. Melodies. Chords. Harmonies. Lyrics."
He continued, "This book is the story of my life as told through twenty-three songs that took me away, soaring, starting at ground level, living in a poor but happy home, never wanting for much more, enjoying what I had, even when times got tough because I had my escape, my refuge, my music."
