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Miranda Lambert dropping some rare Blake Shelton divorce comments!
The 42-year-old country singer is opening up about that dark time of her life on the new episode of the And the Writer Is… podcast with Ross Golan.
Miranda and Blake first met in 2005 when they shared a stage during the CMT 100 Greatest Duets special. The chemistry could be felt through the screen, but Blake was still married to Kaynette Williams at the time.
In 2006, Blake filed for divorce, paving the way for Blake and Miranda to start their own relationship. Both singers have always insisted nothing romantic happened between them until he was legally divorced from Kaynette.
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Then, in 2007, they made their public debut at the CMT Music Awards. They were instantly everyone’s favorite new country couple. By 2010 they’re engaged, marrying a year later in Blake’s hometown of Ada, Oklahoma.
Over the next couple of years both their careers really take off, with Miranda winning Grammy awards and Blake joining The Voice. Rumors of marriage troubles start heating up in 2014, and on July 20, 2015, they told the world their plans to divorce, finalizing the settlement a year later.
After their split, Blake found comfort in his friendship with Gwen Stefani. They were both coaches on The Voice, and she was also getting over a devastating divorce from Gavin Rossdale. Blake and Gwen’s similar journeys amplified their connection, and they started dating, ultimately marrying in 2021.
Miranda moved on, too, marrying former New York police officer Brendan McLoughlin in 2019.
In the past Miranda often said everything she needed to say about her divorce could be found on her album, The Weight of These Wings. Fast forward to 2026 and Miranda’s ready to talk.
Being as candid as she can be, she tells Ross how she coped with heartbreak:
“In 2015 I got divorced and that sucks for anyone, especially in the public eye, especially on tour, especially in the middle of a very public career, two of us, you know what I mean? It just was a really not fun time. And I, in the meantime, had moved back to Nashville full-time, and so I dove headfirst into songwriting.”
Expanding on that, she explains how she used all that pain for her art:
“I used the misery. I used the staying out too late at honky-tonks. I used what I was living and my friends went on that journey with me, friends being songwriters, and I think I wrote 75 songs in, like, a year. I mean, in, like, the first four months I moved back. It was kind of magical, because I really started growing my songwriting then. It was, like, raw emotion. I really grew as a vocalist, and as a songwriter, because I spent so much of my downtime with a guitar in my hand.”
She doesn’t shy away from the messiness of that time, either. Her first single off her breakup album was Vice, and it dived deep into the self-destructive behavior that can come from losing yourself too much in heartache.
She says she wrote Vice “during the height of a lot of bulls**t in my life,” when she was on the “struggle bus,” even rolling a cooler into the studio with Cheeto’s snacks, Tito’s vodka, literally all her vices.
“It was not an easy write. That wasn’t easy to say and be that raw. Also in the process of writing you get really vulnerable with people.”
But, looking back, she can now proudly say it was all worth it. Watch the full podcast episode below for more:
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