Just after Walker completed his fourth album, Rumor Has It, he was playing basketball with a friend when he experienced symptoms of numbness, facial spasms and double vision. Walker was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) and immediately changed his diet and treated the disease through a doctor’s care and managed to put the disease into remission. In May 2002, Walker left Warner Bros. for Nashville’s division of RCA Records, where he only remained for a year, moving to his third record label, Asylum-Curb (a division of Curb Records). Early in his adult life, Walker married rodeo queen Lori Jayne Lampson and they had two daughters, MaClay DaLayne (1996) and Skylor ClayAnne (1999). The couple divorced in 2003. He then married Jessica Craig (2007) and had three more children: William Clayton (2008), Mary Elizabeth (2009) and Elijah Craig (Father’s Day 2013).