Carly Pearce has been open about her divorce from fellow country music artist Michael Ray ever since the couple split in 2020.
The Grammy Award-winner heavily sang about the divorce and fallout on her 2021 album “29: Written in Stone,” with songs such as “What He Didn’t Do” and “Diamondback” serving a more specific cases.
However, Pearce got more candid about the separation in a new interview on Bunnie Xo’s “Dumb Blonde” podcast.
“I thought he was so cute,” Pearce said on the podcast. “I’d heard he’s the nicest guy in the world. I invited him to my (Billboard Country Airplay) No. 1 party for ‘Every Little Thing.’ Looking back on it, it was a hot and heavy lust. It wasn’t love. It was just passionate.”
She continued, “I got married to go the distance. When I married him it was for the right reasons. I think when you travel like this, I thought I was doing the right thing to get married till I was 29. But we didn’t have real conversations, and we didn’t really know about each other. We were kind of living this life that wasn’t really reality. I think we didn’t really know each other. I knew the night I got married that I shouldn’t have. I think the best thing that ever happened to me was COVID, because it allowed me to deal with that in private. I think that I probably would have stayed in it longer if I could have avoided it and not had to. I was embarrassed when it happened … and was heartbroken.”
The former couple first met in 2018 and wed in 2019. Pearce filed for divorce less than a year after, Billboard reported.
“It wasn’t what I signed up for,” she said on the podcast. “It just wasn’t the marriage that I know I deserved. I knew that very quickly. We were only married for eight months. Plenty happened to where it was very clear to me this was not, this just wasn’t a marriage.”
When asked if Ray was unfaithful during the marriage, Pearce responded that her hit “What He Didn’t Do” “wasn’t just written out of thin air.”
“It wasn’t good,” she added.
However, Pearce emphasized that she is thankful for the lessons learned from the marriage.
“Thank you, because you taught me how strong I am. You put me through things that have made me better now. And I don’t wish him evil,” she said. “I don’t wish anything on him. I’m so glad that I’m not in that anymore.”
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