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Randy Travis' naked arrest video made public

Nate Rau
The Tennessean

The 2012 video of Randy Travis' arrest for driving under the influence was released late Monday.

Randy and Mary Travis enter the stage for the Randy Travis tribute concert at Bridgestone Arena Wednesday February 8, 2017.

The video is about three hours long and shows Travis drunk and sometimes belligerent with officers. At one point, Travis, whose naked body was edited out of portions of the video, begs officers to take him home.

Travis' wife Mary Davis-Travis sued the state of Texas to block release of the video. She argued that releasing the video was an invasion of privacy and should have been kept private as a medical record.

The legal challenge also claimed Texas was not following a lower court's ruling that the video could only be released once Travis had exhausted his legal appeals. In 2013, Travis suffered a stroke that led to severe brain damage.

Davis-Travis argued that her husband could not defend himself once the video was released. Travis suffered a concussion and other injuries in a car crash that prompted police to arrive on the scene of a highway in Texas.

Travis' publicity team released a statement on Monday night after TMZ and other media outlets published the videos.

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"Randy’s behavior was extremely altered the evening of his arrest due to the state of his mental health, and substances in his body, causing him to do and say things that were entirely out of character. He suffered a severe concussion and sustained numerous other injuries from the crash.

"Notwithstanding the release of the tape, Randy and his team will have their day in court regarding the ongoing lawsuit against the State of Texas in relation to the violation of his civil rights.

Randy Travis is well-known to be a loving, caring person who is respectful of everyone, a video that shows anything otherwise only underscores that he was absolutely not himself. Randy is deeply apologetic for his actions that evening. A man of integrity with a good heart, Randy does not and will never condone these types of actions that distort the true beliefs of Randy Travis and his entire family."

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