Lainey Wilson’s 13-year run in the country music business has had its fair share of hardships. In an interview with Fox News Digital, Wilson, who’s set to appear in the Hulu special “Lainey Wilson: Bell Bottom Country,” shared how she handled heartache and rejection early in her career. Wilson said, “I think a lot of the rejection really just kind of made me want it that much more. I am hardheaded. I really am, and if you could sit down and talk to my parents, you would realize why I am the way that I am. Both of them, when they have their mind made up, that’s it. And I’ve had my mind made up from the very beginning that I was going to do this.”

Nearly 13 years ago, the “Yellowstone” star packed up her possessions and moved from the 200-person town in Baskin, Louisiana, and headed to Nashville to pursue her dream of being a country music star. In February, Wilson took home her first Grammy. Wilson told Fox News Digital, “I didn’t know what it was going to look like, but I truly do think that that rejection and the time that it has taken me to get to this point, because, I mean, this year it’ll be 13 years that I’ve been in Nashville doing it.”

She added, “I think it’s really just a part of my story. And I think the Lord kind of wanted me to live a little bit more life so I could have more stories to tell, so I could relate to more people. That’s what it’s about when you kind of zoom out and you think about all of this. It’s important to remember and realize why are we doing this? And what are we doing this for? It’s just because we all want to feel something. And, I think, because of that rejection, I think people can relate to some of my stories.” In the trailer for her Hulu special, Wilson says, at times, she felt like a “fish out of water” and that she was “too country for country.” The award-winning musician told Fox News Digital she assumed as a child that everywhere she went, people would have a similar accent to her own.

Wilson said, “As a little girl, you think, ‘Oh, I want to move to Country Music City.’ And you think you’re gonna show up, and everybody there’s going to talk the way that you talk. And that’s just not the truth. Nashville is a big old melting pot, and that’s kind of when I realized, too, that, man, you don’t have to be from where I’m from to eat, sleep and breathe country music. I became friends with people from Canada and Oregon and the East Coast and the West Coast. Everybody loved country music just as much as I love country music. They just didn’t talk like me.”

Wilson explained that, in 2011, when she arrived in Nashville, she felt that she was “too country for country.” She said, “But the truth is, just like fashion, things go in, and things go out. I think at that time what I did was not ‘the thing,’ but I’m glad that I waited.”