One of the bigger mysteries of the last several decades of country music is why Kristen Hall left Sugarland when the then-trio seemed to be on the brink of stardom.
One of the bigger mysteries of the last several decades of country music is why Kristen Hall left Sugarland when the then-trio seemed to be on the brink of stardom.
One of the bigger mysteries of the last several decades of country music is why Kristen Hall left Sugarland when the then-trio seemed to be on the brink of stardom.
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The group showed up for a live appearance on
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno minus one member on Jan. 12, 2006, and within days an announcement came with little fanfare, a simple statement that Hall had split with Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush because she wants to stay home and write songs. Since then, rumors have spread that Hall was forced out for image reasons, or that the co-writer of many of the group s early hits was paid to leave the band.
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If any of that is true, no one from the band has ever commented on it. Hall filed a lawsuit on Aug. 8, 2008, asking for millions of dollars from her former bandmates, but she has mostly disappeared since then. She did release a six-song EP called