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Kellie Pickler's Husband Kyle Jacobs' Cause of Death Revealed
Kellie Pickler and Kyle Jacobs were planning to person a big wedding, figuring the much the merrier to ticker them necktie the knot aft 2 years of togetherness.
But earlier the invitations went out, the Nashville-based mates realized something.
"Every clip we got to the impermanent list, it was like, 'Oh my God, I hatred fractional these people.' Nothing personal," Pickler said connected The Ellen DeGeneres Show a period aft she and Jacobs eloped to Antigua and swapped vows Jan. 1, 2011, connected the beach, ankle-deep in the water.
"All we did was I packed the wedding formal and packed him an outfit," the state vocalist continued. "We wholly conscionable enactment religion successful God that it was each going to enactment out, and it did, and it was the astir unthinkable time of my life."
She had "1-1-11" engraved on her husband's wedding set connected 1 side—and "Put it backmost on!" engraved connected the other. So he'd cognize precisely what to bash if helium ever took it, Pickler explained.
She and Jacobs continued connected successful that spirited, playful vein, showing what bully sports they were connected 2 seasons of the CMT series I Love Kellie Pickler while besides making music and teaming up clip and again for causes adjacent to their heart, be it visiting U.S. troops overseas (which is however they spent their honeymoon) oregon raising wealth for kids with peculiar needs.
After being progressive with the lawsuit for years, they hosted the Island Time Music Festival successful 2021 to payment the Little Yellow School House successful Mexico. "It's 1 of the much beauteous things that we've ever done," Jacobs said connected the Talk to Chuck podcast, prompting host Chuck Wick to tease that helium ne'er realized that the songwriter was arsenic bully arsenic his famously cheery wife.
"He's got a bully heart!" Pickler chimed in. "He's a bully man."
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Such was the overwhelming statement arsenic tributes poured successful for Jacobs aft his death astatine 49 by termination connected Feb. 17.
"Thank you for being the top person to maine and large member that I ne'er had," Jennifer Wayne, big of the Design Network amusement Flip U, wrote connected Jacobs' last Instagram post from two days earlier his death, celebrating Lee Brice's medium Hey World, which he'd co-produced, going platinum. "You ever protected maine and looked retired for me… nary 1 volition ever instrumentality your spot with Kellie, but I committedness that myself and each of her friends volition wrapper her successful the biggest emotion we cognize how."
American Idol alum Dillon James commented, "No words what truthful ever but I americium truthful gladsome we got to chat the different day, I'll beryllium praying for you and your household bud. Thanks for each the laughs Kyle."
In his own tribute post, Brice called Jacobs "without a doubt, 1 of the champion radical anyone could ever anticipation to person successful their corner."
The communal denominator among each the reactions was daze and the reminder that nary one ever really knows what's going connected successful a person's head, that adjacent the astir upbeat-seeming radical that look to person everything going for them whitethorn beryllium suffering.
Autopsy results released by the Davidson Country Medical Examiner this past week stated that determination were nary traces of drugs successful Jacobs' strategy erstwhile helium died, but helium had a "history of chronic intoxicant use."
Pickler opened up astir her ain year-long conflict with slump successful 2008, telling People, "Everything successful my nonrecreational beingness seemed great. But successful my idiosyncratic life, I was conscionable crumbling."
She credited enactment from friends and the emotion of the then-new antheral successful her beingness for helping her retired of a acheronian place.
"He makes maine consciousness truthful bully astir being me," she said of Jacobs astatine the time.
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The 36-year-old has yet to marque immoderate remark publically astir her husband's death. But she's got ever-so-many memories to revisit.
The "Best Days of Your Life" singer, who roseate to fame erstwhile she finished sixth on American Idol successful 2006 and solidly ranks among the long-running show's much enduring occurrence stories, met Jacobs successful 2008 erstwhile she virtually spotted him crossed a crowded country astatine a Nashville bar.
"I didn't cognize who helium was oregon what helium did," Pickler recalled connected The Real in 2015. "We conscionable locked eyes and I went, 'I gotta cognize everything astir this person.'"
They closed the spot down, excessively engaged talking to recognize each their friends had near them to it.
Jacobs popped the question June 23, 2010—the day of Pickler's beloved precocious grandmother—on the formation astatine sunset, a precursor to the idyllic land nuptials they yet decided on.
"In each honesty, I person been truthful blessed with the astir astonishing antheral ever," the artist gushed to Ellen DeGeneres about Kyle aft getting engaged. "He is specified a antheral of God. He's truthful amazing. He has showed maine what emotion is, what emotion truly is. I've ne'er been treated truthful respectfully. I've ne'er been treated truthful loved the mode helium loves me. And it's truthful important to find that and ne'er settee with a loser."
On The Kelly Clarkson Show in 2019, Pickler recounted the infinitesimal wherever she turned to Jacobs and proposed throwing wedding readying to the upwind and conscionable moving disconnected together: "He goes, 'Whew, thought you'd ne'er ask!'"
After wedding successful the Caribbean, they took disconnected for Baghdad due to the fact that Pickler had a antecedently scheduled USO commitment.
"All of the soldiers astatine each spot wherever we would enactment astatine had a 'honeymoon' suite for us," she told Clarkson. "It was the funniest thing."
A fewer years later, signing up to bash a world amusement whitethorn person not been the evident determination for a mates enjoying specified a drama-free marriage, but their intentions were pure, according to Pickler.
"For us, we are truthful blessed and we conscionable privation to beryllium a agleam airy successful the world," she explained connected The Steve Harvey Show in 2015 (thereby securing her and Jacobs' future spot connected Celebrity Family Feud as well). "We privation to laughter and person amusive and live. There's a large quality betwixt being live and living."
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I Love Kellie Pickler ran for 2 seasons connected CMT, pursuing her and Jacobs arsenic they lived the saccharine beingness together, astatine location successful Nashville and connected the state euphony circuit, tackling lighthearted issues similar his snoring occupation and their friend's fear of fabric balls on the way.
And there wasn't a hint of irony to beryllium recovered anyplace successful the show's title.
"One of my favourite things astir Kellie is conscionable the mode she looks astatine life," Jacobs shared successful an occurrence testimonial. "She conscionable loves to laugh. She conscionable doesn't instrumentality things excessively seriously."
The mates traveled to Japan to wrapper up their show's 2nd season, Pickler sharing that she had wanted to spot the satellite since she was a kid, which is portion of the crushed wherefore she loves her chosen assemblage truthful much.
"Growing up successful specified a tiny small municipality wherever you cognize what you know, and you don't cognize what you don't know," the Albemarle, N.C., native said in 2016 connected the podcast Get Real With Caroline Hobby. "I've ever been that person, that small Curious George explorer that wanted to propulsion the boundaries and go...I've ever wanted to unrecorded retired of a suitcase and spot the world, conscionable arsenic galore antithetic kinds of radical that I can."
Stressing that she lone formed opinions based connected her ain experiences and "what I witnesser with my ain eyes," Pickler said she was endlessly funny successful radical and uncovering retired what made them tick.
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Catching up with E! News a twelvemonth ago, however, the big of SiriusXM's The Highway sang the praises of home.
"I'm specified a elemental miss honestly," she said. "I emotion gardening. My friends telephone maine the 5th unofficial Golden Girl. I'm that 104-year-old trapped successful a 35-year-old body. I emotion puzzles. I emotion bully conversations. I emotion to beryllium connected the beforehand structure successful my rocking chair. I conscionable similar to beryllium successful bully company."
Her radio gig was close up her alley, but truthful was going location astatine the extremity of the day.
"I timepiece successful and I bash my occupation and past I travel location and I'm a wife," she said. "I'm a friend. I'm a neighbor. I'm a godmother. I attraction astir things that genuinely matter. 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."
Despite her professed wanderlust, that position was beauteous accordant with what she'd said a decennary anterior astir keeping it simple.
"For me, occurrence is being successful a spot of happiness," she told Taste of Country successful 2012. "I cognize a batch of radical that are successful the concern and radical that are not successful the business, that person different professions, that you look astatine and they person it all. There's thing that they don't person but for 1 happening and that is they're not happy. They're not blessed people. To me, you tin person each the wealth successful the satellite and each the fame successful the satellite and inactive laic your caput connected your pillow and outcry due to the fact that you're not happy.
"For me," she continued, "I consciousness precise palmy successful the information that I person travel truthful acold from my raising and however I was brought up to wherever I americium now. I look astatine my hubby and I think, 'This man...this is each I need. I get to spell connected signifier each nighttime and sing songs that I emotion and I got an medium present that I americium conscionable much arrogant of than thing and of people I privation my euphony to beryllium heard by arsenic galore radical arsenic possible, each creator wants that."
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Getting to enactment with her hubby done the years was an added bonus.
"Kyle is simply a sanctuary for me," Pickler told The Knot in 2016. "He is my champion friend, truthful I spot him completely... I'm truthful blessed to beryllium capable to acquisition this beingness with my champion friend. My beingness partner. He's my adventure-travel buddy and conscionable my treasure. I'm truthful blessed to person idiosyncratic to stock this beingness with."
Playing a small rapid-fire game with Hobby connected her longtime friend's podcast successful 2016, Pickler picked Jacobs erstwhile asked what made her excited.
"He's truthful wonderful," she said. "He does excite me." Hobby observed that they had "the best relationship."
Pondering what her figurative imaginativeness committee looked like, Pickler said, "I conscionable privation to beryllium a agleam airy successful the world. I conscionable privation to marque radical happy. I privation to beryllium happy—I am, I'm blessed. We person a beautiful life, beauteous radical successful our lives with large hearts and large motives. We're each conscionable trying to get done this satellite and marque it."
In a 2014 interrogation for McPherson Guitars, Jacobs described his emblematic time as, "I aftermath up successful the greeting and person my coffee, and eat my Cheerios. Spend immoderate clip with my woman and I'm beauteous overmuch penning a opus each azygous time astatine 12 o'clock." Sometimes "a opus conscionable happens similar that," helium said, snapping his fingers. But whether it does oregon not, past helium heads into the workplace and "by the extremity of the day, I'm beauteous spent."
Writing and producing could beryllium "rather taxing," the Minneapolis autochthonal said, "but I volition ne'er complain. Still to this day, I can't judge it's what I bash for a living, and it genuinely is simply a blessing...Five, 10 years from now, honestly I'd emotion to conscionable inactive beryllium doing what I'm doing."
He besides shared that helium got his archetypal custom-made McPherson arsenic an day acquisition from his wife, with their wedding day "1-1-11" engraved into the backmost of the headstock. He called it "literally the astir beauteous guitar" he'd ever seen oregon played.
Jacobs utilized the instrumentality to perform their wedding opus "Say I Do" portion Pickler danced the rumba connected Dancing With the Stars in 2013, during the week the contestants paid tribute to the champion twelvemonth of their lives.
Jacobs' Instagram leafage features a cozy hodgepodge of pics of Pickler and their dogs, hangouts with friends, scenes from the signaling studio, sites astir Nashville and your accustomed Insta-randomness, specified arsenic a shot of a half-empty Mott's jar after helium was struck by a large applesauce craving connected his 48th birthday.
Pickler, whose past workplace medium was 2013's The Woman I Am, told Sounds Like Nashville successful 2021 that she and Jacobs had been engaged writing. "He's been moving truthful hard producing and whatnot," she said. "We're acceptable to get backmost successful the workplace and enactment caller euphony retired that volition heal and assistance people."
While Jacobs' last Instagram station was from Feb. 15, he past shared a photograph of his woman on Jan. 1, 2022, writing, "Happy 11th wedding Anniversary to my Patriotic Princess… @kelliepickler …Her mind, heart, and psyche is not lone comitted [sic] to our subject and archetypal responders, it is convicted to fto them cognize that they are appreciated and loved…And the bully quality for maine is…She loves maine too…:) #lovewins."
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