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Kellie Pickler's hubby Kyle Jacobs was recovered dormant aft an evident termination astatine the American Idol alum's Nashville, Tenn., location connected Feb. 17, according to police. He was 49.
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Kellie Pickler has suffered an unimaginable loss.
The state singer's husband, songwriter Kyle Jacobs, was found dead after an evident termination astatine her Tennessee location connected Feb. 17, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department told E! News successful a statement. He was 49.
Officers were called to Pickler's residence astir 1:21 p.m. section clip aft she and her idiosyncratic adjunct were incapable to unfastened the doorway to a bedroom/office upstairs, constabulary said. "Mr. Jacobs' wife, Kellie Pickler, reported that she awoke a abbreviated clip earlier," the connection noted, "did not spot her husband, and began looking for him."
Per authorities, Jacobs' decease is being investigated arsenic an evident suicide.
E! News has reached retired to Pickler's rep for remark but hasn't heard back.
Pickler, 36, joined Jacobs successful a backstage Carribbean ceremonial successful 2011, more than 5 years aft she competed connected the 5th play of American Idol. The mates starred connected 3 seasons of their CMT world show, I Love Kellie Pickler, from 2015 to 2017.
The bid documented Pickler and Jacobs' matrimony arsenic they juggled work and play. "We conscionable bash everything we tin conscionable to beryllium real," Jacobs told Yahoo's BUILD series successful 2017. "We emotion laughing done life. We emotion to bash that, and that's what the amusement is. Our amusement is emotion and laughter."
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Jacobs—who wrote songs for Garth Brooks and Tim McGraw—added astatine the time, "There's ever stresses successful life...and I deliberation if you [and] particularly with your important other can laughter astatine a batch of it and laughter done it, past you're successful a bully spot."
In summation to songwriting, Jacobs held shaper credits connected hits like Lee Brice's "Hard to Love," "I Drive Your Truck," "Drinking Class" and "Rumor."
Last year, Pickler told E! News that she doesn't see herself a personage and enjoyed surviving a quieter beingness with Jacobs. "I timepiece successful and I bash my occupation and past I travel location and I'm a wife," she said. "I hatred the connection celebrity. It dehumanizes people. I timepiece retired of that satellite arsenic speedy arsenic imaginable and I support my feet connected coagulated crushed successful the existent world. I adjacent person steadfast boundaries with radical that are successful the business."
If you oregon idiosyncratic you cognize needs help, telephone 988 to scope the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. You tin besides telephone the network, antecedently known arsenic the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, astatine 800-273-8255, substance HOME to 741741 oregon sojourn SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources for further resources.
