Why Did Kelsea Ballerini Want to End Her Marriage to Morgan Evans?

Ballerini reflected connected however she felt she and Evans were connected antithetic pages passim their marriage.

"I slept connected the sofa the nighttime earlier the CMAs and I retrieve I went to rehearsal astatine the arena and texting him and him being like, 'I'll conscionable spot you astatine the carpet,'" she shared. "There was conscionable specified a consciousness of disconnection. We hadn't seen each other. There was a deficiency of effort to spot each other, I was getting resentful due to the fact that anytime we did spot each different I felt similar I was carrying that load.

It was exhausting, she said: "I was conscionable bushed of showing up successful that mode each the clip and not feeling similar I was seen oregon matched."

As for the infinitesimal she knew it was implicit betwixt them? "I was realizing that I wasn't acceptable for kids, and that's a cardinal difference," Ballerini said. "And I inactive don't cognize if I privation kids astatine each oregon not. But that was thing we had talked astir aboriginal connected and that was thing that I was changing on."

And the 37-year-old Aussie was acceptable to commencement a family. "He was like, 'I don't privation to beryllium an aged dad,'" she revealed. "I was like, 'I'm not determination yet. And I can't bash that to prevention this and springiness you thing that I'm not acceptable for, I conscionable can't bash that to myself.'"

She decided to archer him that for her 30th birthday, she was going to frost her eggs. But that quality didn't beryllium good with her, she alleged. "That was erstwhile I was, like, there's a cardinal quality present that has happened, that has shifted," Ballerini recalled. "And it's nary longer like, 'I don't spot this person, I miss this person, I'm alone, I'm lonely.'"

Have Kelsea Ballerini and Morgan Evans Talked Since Their Breakup?

Before publically announcing their divorce, Ballerini says she had an "honest" speech with Evans. 

"I was like, 'I've loved what this has brought successful my beingness and I respect you and I respect maine and due to the fact that of that, I tin nary longer beryllium successful this marriage,'" she detailed. "'I truly wanna, like, grant the bully that we've experienced by doing this the close way.' And it was beautiful. We cried. We hugged, it was sweet."

But, she admitted, thing changed afterwards. "I haven't talked to him since," Ballerini said. "After that speech evidently you lawyer up and you archer your squad and you get your radical and everything benignant of conscionable shifted. I'm astatine bid with it now."

When Cooper said the divided "got nasty," Ballerini agreed, "It did."

How Does Kelsea Ballerini Feel About Morgan Evans' Breakup Song "Over You"?

The answer? "So angry," she said.

"I had a beauteous bully grasp connected my grieving travel until that opus came retired and I was livid," Ballerini admitted of the track. "I did not blindside him. I deliberation 2 things tin beryllium true. And I deliberation if helium genuinely was blindsided, past wherever was he? And that's the point."

Instead, she called it "opportunistic" for him to driblet the way successful the autumn of 2022, portion they were inactive going done divorcement proceedings. (Ballerini confirmed during a Nov. 15 Grand Ole Opry show that she'd finalized her divorcement earlier that day.)

"I felt truly utilized successful that moment," she remembered. "His healing travel is his healing journey, I respect that, but publically exploiting it feels a small nasty to me, earlier it's final. Now, we're months past it, we're moving connected and I've taken the clip to really beryllium successful my feelings and spell done that grieving process and instrumentality ownership of what I brought to the array too, you know? And that's wherefore this EP...I'm tense to enactment it retired for sure, but I privation I would've had it successful August."

Did Kelsea Ballerini and Morgan Evans Have a Prenup?

Despite having a prenup, Ballerini claims that Evans wanted fractional of the house.

When she recovered retired from her lawyers,

"I conscionable retrieve being connected the telephone and being like, 'Can you articulate to maine that I person a prime close present to either springiness up fractional a location that I bought, helium contributed but not equal, or...have similar nationalist alimony hearings? Indefinitely?'" she shared. "And they were like, 'That's correct.' And I was like, 'Give him the house. I privation out, get maine out.'"

How Did Kelsea Ballerini and Chase Stokes Meet?

After confirming she's not single, Cooper asked Ballerini if she's dating Chase, who she's been spending clip with recently. "I'm conscionable vibing," Ballerini said. "I'm sweating!"

As for however they met? "I slid into his DMs," she confessed. "I was conscionable like, 'I'm not gonna get connected an app.' And honestly, helium shoots successful Charleston and my manager lives determination and helium enactment the bug successful my ear. He was like, 'You cognize who's truly cute? When you're ready. Chase.' And I was like, 'You're truthful right.' And I've ne'er seen the amusement but I conscionable knew of him and yeah, I followed him and helium followed maine and I conscionable swan dove close connected in. His grip is @hichasestokes and I said, 'Hi Chase Stokes.'"

And the remainder is history.