Ashley Monroe has been diagnosed with a rare form of blood cancer. The country singer, who is a member of Pistol Annies with Miranda Lambert and Angaleena Presley, told fans in a candid Instagram post that she is battling Waldenstr?m macroglobulinemia, which is a type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. “So, I start chemo tomorrow. Seems like such a negative thing to say. Until I flip that doom feeling on its head and think, wow, I’m thankful I have an illness that is VERY live with-able. I’m thankful there IS a treatment that actually works to fight what is causing harm to my body. THANKFUL for friends and family who have gathered around me praying and sending flowers and letting me lean on them during this super weird chapter of my life,” she wrote in part.
Country star Miranda Lambert readily admits that she doesn't really like Christmas music at all. The only thing that would get her in the spirit to do a holiday record was singing with her two best gal pals from the Pistol Annies, Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley. “If there was ever a time I would think a Christmas album was fun, it would be with these two girls, for sure," said the Texas-born singer.
Miranda Lambert's Pistol Annies are about to give fans one 'Hell of a Holiday' with their first ever Christmas album that the singer announced on Instagram.
Lambert said that her Pistol Annies bandmates, Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley, saw NYPD officer Brendan McLoughlin "and knew I might be ready to hang out with someone. They invited him to our show behind my back."