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Troy Gentry, half of award-winning Country Music duo Montgomery Gentry, is finding he has a lot more apologizing to do for an incident that happened back in 2006 when the Kentucky native was charged with a felony for illegally killing a bear held in an enclosure in Minnesota, and claiming it was caught in the wild.
However, Troy’s problems have returned when animal rights group known as SHARK (Showing Animals Respect and Kindness) released a You Tube video of Troy killing the bear because SHARK wanted to bring the issue back to public light because they felt Troy got off to easy.
Even though Troy apologized after the incident, paid a fine of ,000, served a period of probation and even gave up his rights to hunt and fish in the state of Minnesota for a period of five years, he’s speaking out again and saying “there is no one who feels as bad about this as I do, I have beaten myself up about this over the years and realize what a horrible mistake I made”.
“I am not proud of what I did and I am truly sorry,” he concludes, signing his name at the bottom of a written statement, “I believe people can change, and since this happened, I know in my heart that I am a different and better person”.
Time will tell if this latest gesture will out weigh the sentiment behind the YouTube video, which has already had more than 66,000 views, but in the meantime, Troy and his singing partner Eddie Montgomery, recently exited Columbia Records, the label they called home for more than a decade and continue to tour, as well as work on new music.
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