Dale Earnhardt Jr. Reveals His Biggest Fear, And It’s A Weird One

Drive 200 mph around Talladega? No problem. But put on a necklace? No way.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. can’t be afraid of much, after he spent his NASCAR Cup Series career driving inches apart from other cars going nearly 200 mph, running right up against the wall and on the edge of wrecking every lap.

He’s flown through the air during wrecks, battled concussions from the hits that he took over the years, and even survived a plane crash back in 2019.

So you’ll probably never guess the one thing that DOES scare Junior.

Apparently it’s jewelry.

During the latest episode of his Dale Jr. Download podcast, Dale sat down with his wife Amy to play their own little version of “The Newlywed Game” (despite the fact that they’ve been married since 2016 and have two kids together).

And when they were asked each other’s weirdest fears, both spouses immediately had their answer for Junior.

“He’s got two pretty big ones, being alone and jewelry.”

Excuse me? Jewelry?

According to Amy, Junior doesn’t even wear a metal wedding band: His real wedding ring is made of walnut, but he wears a silicon band most of the time.

“I didn’t want him to cry at the altar.”

She says that Dale can’t explain the cause of his dislike for jewelry, but he knows what he doesn’t like about it. And according to Dale, it’s more of an “ick” than a fear:

“It’s mostly disgust. It’s mostly like, it’s more grossy nausea.”

(Dale also has a hilarious way of pronouncing “nausea,” but you’ll just have to listen to that for yourself).

But anyway, he continues:

“The dantier and lighter and smaller the piece of jewelry, the more ick. It’s an ick.”

Amy points out that Dale races in a metal car with parts flapping around all over the place, but Dale sees that as different:

“They’re not dangling and jingling.”

And she also admits that there are times when he makes her mad, so she puts on her jewelry to mess with him.

“Sometimes she goes out, and she goes out with her friends or whatever and she wears whatever she wants to wear, and she sometimes comes home and forgets she’s got it on…and I don’t say anything, but I’m just like cringing inside.

But then there are times when she’ll wear jewelry and my immediate thought is, ‘What did I do? What did I do that pissed her off? I’ve done something. I’m getting punished.'”

I mean, at least she knows how to keep him in line – and all it takes is a necklace.