Thomas Rhett reflects on the first time he saw his adopted daughter, Willa Gray, in an orphanage when she was just 6 weeks old
“And my wife was just talking to me, like ‘We have to find a home for this child,’” Rhett said. “And I’ll never forget it dude, it was 2 o’clock in the morning where I was, half asleep, and it just kind of blurted out of my mouth. ‘We’re going to bring her home.'”
He continued, “I don’t even know if I was ready to have kids yet. I was really loving the road thing, my career was just starting to take off, I was like, ‘Man if we have kids right now, what is that gonna do?’ And I’ll never forget those words coming out of my mouth.”Thomas Rhett and Lauren Akins’ love story is one for the books. The couple met as kindergartners, but it took them about 15 years to realize that they were life partners — and they haven’t turned back since.
For the next year, Rhett and Atkins returned to Uganda a dozen times before formally adopting the then-18-month-old.after being friends since childhood, share three other daughters: Ada, 5, Lennon, 3, and Lillie, 19 months.By signing up, I agree to the Terms and Privacy Policy and to receive emails from USWeekly
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