A shocking loss. America’s Got Talent season 15 contestant Nolan Neal has died. He was 41.The medical examiner’s office in Nashville, Tennessee, confirmed to Us Weekly on Tuesday, July 19, that the musician was pronounced dead one day prior, although a cause of death is currently unknown.
Neal’s cousin, Dylan Seals, told TMZ that the TV personality was found unresponsive in his Nashville apartment.Ahead of his death, Neal had long been open about his struggles with substance abuse over the years.
In July 2020, he told WBIR that — despite being clean for 10 years before his first attempt at reality TV success — he began drinking while competing on The Voice in 2016. “I kind of lost my way on The Voice and continued drinking,” Neal said. “You can see it.
I can see it.”Though he was eliminated in the Knockout round on season 11 of the NBC series, the Tennessee native took another shot at stardom four years later on another competition show — and this time, he was completely sober.
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