“I sort of lost contact with Duke in that exact second, but that had become a little bit regular for us because we had obviously reached that point in our careers where we were recognizable in public.”
He clarified, saying, “I was essentially on my way to kind of gobble him up and get him back into a safe place, and at about the same time,
I was surrounded by this group of people.” Fans were requesting pictures and inquiring about the whereabouts of his wife, with one woman even squeezing his cheeks.
According to Gaines, who has five kids with Joanna, the experience altered him and made him reevaluate his life goals.
It was a troubling sequence of events, he said, “only because I realized at that moment that I was unable to communicate accurately that.
I was actually a desperate father trying to get my son into a safe place, but also to kind of resonate with these people and not be rude and all the things that we struggle with in a typical situation.”
