Current:Home > InvestKelsea Ballerini Urges Fans Not to Dig Up Morgan Evans Divorce Drama Ahead of Extended EP Release-LoTradeCoin
Kelsea Ballerini Urges Fans Not to Dig Up Morgan Evans Divorce Drama Ahead of Extended EP Release
View Date:2024-12-24 07:40:15
Kelsea Ballerini is jumping heartfirst into the future—not the past.
As the singer prepares to release Rolling Up the Welcome Mat (For Good)—an extended version of her February EP—on Aug. 11, she's bracing for fans' reactions to the new music, which was written last year amid her divorce from her husband of five years Morgan Evans.
In fact, she has a "favor" to ask fans: Don't rehash her breakup with the country singer or dissect the new lyrics too much.
"From the deepest and purest part of my heart, i ask that you help this be ours and let the music simply be the music," Ballerini wrote on Instagram Aug. 2, "not dig back into the experience that it was written about nearly a year ago."
While she is "proud and protective" over the new music as a songwriter and performer, Ballerini noted that she's "also proud and protective of the new, happy season of life i'm in" on a more personal level.
The 29-year-old added, "my real hope is for us to continue growing, healing, and evolving together with acceptance and kindness (even when we unleash our inner fire breathing dragon singing the new versions of these songs). am i right?"
Since her split from Evans, Ballerini has embarked on a personal healing journey, including striking up a romance with Outer Banks star Chase Stokes. The pair went red carpet official in April, four months after they were first linked publicly.
Ballerini's forthcoming track "How Do I Do This" may shed new light on their romance and "bring the story more up to date," she teased in her Instagram post.
"'It's kinda scary opening a wound that time has mended'…but this unexplainably transformative welcome mat had one last bit of rolling up to do," she added, explaining why she decided to release a new version of her EP. "it's most important that i articulate that this re-release is for you and you only."
Released Feb. 14, Rolling Up the Welcome Mat gave a glimpse into Ballerini's split from Evans and how she was coping at the time.
On "Penthouse," she sang about "playing home" in their apartment: "We played the part five nights, but we were never there on the weekends, baby / We got along real nice, but when I left town, did you hate me?"
Then, in "Blindsided," Ballerini wrote about the fallout and what went wrong.
"And now you're saying that you're lost, and that's lost on me / Years of sitting across from me in therapy," she sang on the track, "I know the truth is hard to hear, but it wasn't hard to find / Baby, were you blindsided or were you just blind?"
At the time of the EP's release, Evans said her lyrics weren't true to what really went down between them. "It's really sad for me to see this person," he wrote on social media, "who I spent so much of my life with, and loved with all my heart, saying things that aren't reality and that leave out what really happened."
Rolling Up the Welcome Mat (For Good) drops Aug. 11.
For the latest breaking news updates, click here to download the E! News AppveryGood! (81)
Related
- One person is dead after a shooting at Tuskegee University
- College football bowl projections after Week 10: It's crunch time for playoff contenders
- NCAA, Pac-12, USC set to begin trial today with NLRB over athletes' employment status
- A series of powerful earthquakes shakes eastern Indonesia. No immediate reports of casualties
- Hurricane-stricken Tampa Bay Rays to play 2025 season at Yankees’ spring training field in Tampa
- Mexico’s hurricane reconstruction plans prioritize military barracks, owners left to rebuild hotels
- Ivanka Trump set to testify in civil fraud trial, following her father’s heated turn on the stand
- What stores are open on Thanksgiving and Black Friday 2023?
- NFL Week 10 injury report: Live updates on active, inactive players for Sunday's games
- 'Music was there for me when I needed it,' The Roots co-founder Tariq Trotter says
Ranking
- Dwayne Johnson Admits to Peeing in Bottles on Set After Behavior Controversy
- FDA moves to pull common drug used by pork industry, citing human cancer risk
- Trump maintains dominant lead among 2024 Republican candidates as GOP field narrows: CBS News poll
- Go digital or else: Citibank tells customers to ditch paper statements or lose digital access
- Trump’s economic agenda for his second term is clouding the outlook for mortgage rates
- Blue diamond sells for more than $44 million at Christie’s auction in Geneva
- Wisconsin Senate to vote on GOP-backed elections amendments to the state constitution
- A man with a gun is arrested in a park near the US Capitol
Recommendation
-
Fantasy football buy low, sell high: 10 trade targets for Week 11
-
Today's Mississippi governor election pits Elvis's second cousin Brandon Presley against incumbent Tate Reeves
-
Why Michael Strahan Has Been MIA From Good Morning America
-
Hootie & the Blowfish announces 1st tour since 2019: See all the 2024 dates
-
NY forest ranger dies fighting fires as air quality warnings are issued in New York and New Jersey
-
Nobel peace laureate Bialiatski has been put in solitary confinement in Belarus, his wife says
-
North Carolina State Auditor Beth Wood faces misdemeanor charge over misuse of state vehicle
-
TikTok is ending its Creator Fund, which paid users for making content