MORGAN WALLEN'S BUNKER MENTALITY

Country phenom doesn't trust himself in public after race scandal

RED-HOT Morgan Wallen’s country career is soaring to heights unattained by cowboy king Garth Brooks, but the Last Night singer’s turned into a recluse following a racist scandal that nearly destroyed his career.

The 30-year-old, whose latest collection of songs, One Thing at a Time, became the first country album ever to top the pop charts for 16 weeks, used to be the life of the party. But now, he largely lays off the sauce and stays put on his Nashville farm with three-year-old son Indigo, whose mom is Morgan’s ex-fiancée KT Smith.