As Kelsea Ballerini continues to discuss her bitter divorce from fellow country music star Morgan Evans, she’s now opening up about the physical toll of the split.
02.03.2023 - 01:31 / usmagazine.com
Protector mode! Kelsea Ballerini’s mom, Carla Denham, got real about her daughter’s heartbreak — and how hard it was to watch — following her split from Morgan Evans.
When Ballerini, 29, separated from Evans, 37, in summer 2022, her mom had a front row seat. When their divorce was finalized in November 2022 — and the country songstress released her six-track EP Rolling Up the Welcome Mat about her breakup in February — Denham once again was there to listen and guide her daughter.
“As she was sending me those songs when she would write them … I would just bawl,” the musician’s mom revealed during a Monday, February 27, appearance on the “Got It From My Momma” podcast. “The songs were hard enough to listen to, but I also know that it’s cathartic for her. That’s her way of processing hurt and pain. It’s to go write it — then it’s out of her.”
Denham revealed that the “Peter Pan” singer’s choice to also include six music videos that correlate to her six new songs made her even more nervous.
“I was thinking, ‘God, how are you gonna do that?’ I couldn’t do that — there’s no way,” she said. “If she had hired an actress to do that, it still would’ve hurt for me to watch it, but to watch her acting out what she really felt and experienced was just … it’s that blend between I’m in total awe, when she showed me the piece, and I just wanted to take her and put her in a plastic bubble and let’s just go away somewhere away from the world.”
Denham noted that the emotions Ballerini was able to portray in the videos, which are all pegged to her and Evans’ ups and downs before and after their divorce, was authentically her daughter.
“I watched that film and the pain on her face … I’ve seen that pain. It’s real pain,” Denham said. “That was a
As Kelsea Ballerini continues to discuss her bitter divorce from fellow country music star Morgan Evans, she’s now opening up about the physical toll of the split.
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Kelsea Ballerini made her musical guest debut with what appeared to be a slight dig at ex Morgan Evans.Ballerini, who performed the track, «Blindsided» from her new breakup album,, noticeably added some extra lyrics to the end of the song to seemingly take aim at Evans amid their ongoing divorce drama.Following the final chorus, Ballerini looked straight into the camera, and sang, «Now you're singing out loud on the radio/You couldn't say it to my face/You would've searched the whole world over/Yeah, sure. Ok.»She also performed her hit ballad, «Penthouse,» off the same album.Ballerini's scorching lyrics come after a bit of back-and-forth between the 29-year-old singer and her ex.
Kelsea Ballerini made her musical guest debut with what appeared to be a slight dig at ex Morgan Evans.Ballerini, who performed the track, «Blindsided» from her new breakup album,, noticeably added some extra lyrics to the end of the song to seemingly take aim at Evans amid their ongoing divorce drama.Following the final chorus, Ballerini looked straight into the camera, and sang, «Now you're singing out loud on the radio/You couldn't say it to my face/You would've searched the whole world over/Yeah, sure. Ok.»She also performed her hit ballad, «Penthouse,» off the same album.Ballerini's scorching lyrics come after a bit of back-and-forth between the 29-year-old singer and her ex.
Chase Stokes has confirmed he and Kelsea Ballerini are dating.The star appeared with Sheinelle Jones on the show and responded affirmatively that he and the country music star are in a relationship. While teasing Ballerini's scheduled appearance on, Jones informed viewers, «For those who don't know, they're dating,» to which Stokes responded with a simple, «Mhm.»And, for the record, he's a fan of her music.«Absolutely I'm a fan,» he said.
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Morgan Evans is channeling his breakup pain on-screen in a five-part docuseries for his song «Over for You.» The track, written about his divorce from Kelsea Ballerini, was released in October, just two months after Ballerini filed to end their marriage. The series sees Evans detail his return to the stage with the «most personal» song he's ever written and shared with his fans.In the song, the Australian-born country star shares that he was blindsided by his then-wife's actions.
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Kelsea Ballerini wasn't moved by ex-husband Morgan Evans' breakup song, «Over for You.» On the latest episode of the podcast, the 29-year-old songstress opened up about the moment her ex released the track and questioned the timing.«If I'm being honest, I felt like that was really opportunistic for him to put that out when he did when we were still going through the legalities of getting divorced,» Ballerini told host Alex Cooper. «I felt really used in that moment. And again, his healing journey is his healing journey, I respect that.
Morgan Evans is speaking out ahead of ex Kelsea Ballerini's tell-all interview. One day before the release of Ballerini's interview on the podcast, Evans took to Twitter to react to her forthcoming claims.«It's really sad for me to see this person, who I spent so much of my life with, and loved with all my heart, saying things that aren't reality and that leave out what really happened,» Evans tweeted.
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Morgan Evans is taking his turn to make a public statement about his marriage to Kelsea Ballerini. Quotes were shared yesterday from Ballerini's appearance on the "Call Her Daddy" podcast that painted Evans in a very negative light, and last night he posted a statement of his own to share his side of the story. "It's really sad for me to see this person, who I spent so much of my life with, and loved with all my heart, saying things that aren't reality and that leave out what really happened," he wrote.
Kelsea Ballerini is getting candid about her love life. In a new tell-all interview on the podcast, Ballerini details her «nasty» divorce from Morgan Evans and talks about her new romance with star, Chase Stokes.Ballerini and Evans tied the knot in 2017, after what the country singer called a «whirlwind romance.» Initially finding an attraction to the security and safety Evans offered, Ballerini said she ignored some of the red flags that were present in the early days of their relationship, like moving in with each other after eight months.And just months after that, the pair were ready to walk down the aisle, something Ballerini said she didn't want to do.«I just wanted everyone to have a nice time.