“Well, Taylor Sheridan told me, because we were on the phone, he said, ‘I have an idea,’ and I said, ‘This guy is full of crazy ideas.’ He is. He’s crazy,” Lainey continued TODAY. “But he said, ‘I want to create a character just for you, and I want you to sing your music and be yourself a little bit, but use a musician named Abby.'”

“I said, ‘Well, you know, I’ve never acted a day in my life.’ And he said, ‘Well, most of the musicians I work with are unknowingly actors and actresses, because sometimes you have to be on that stage and maybe you just lost someone the night before you’re going through a breakup – maybe , who knows?’ But you have to hide all these feelings when you’re on that stage because it’s not about you.”

All we know is, Yellowstone may be packed with dynamic drama, but we’re happy to hear that our girl will be back on our screens.

Yellowstone 5B premieres Sunday, November 10 at 8pm ET on Paramount Network.

Rebecca Norris is a full-time freelance writer living in the Washington, DC metro area. Over the past decade she has covered a range of lifestyle topics including travel, home, beauty, style, wellbeing and celebrity news. She is a graduate of George Mason University, where she received a BA in Media: Production, Consumption and Criticism, along with a minor in Electronic Journalism. When she’s not writing, she can be found strolling with her Jack-Chi, Cash, sipping matcha lattes, enjoying delicious foods, scouring farmers markets and antique sales, collecting colored glass, getting lost in the pages of a book, and exploring them new bucket list cities.