Kelsea Ballerini Cries in the Bathtub Amid Morgan Evans Divorce

Nation songstress Kelsea Ballerini is feeling her heavy feelings as she navigates her ongoing divorce from estranged husband Morgan Evans.

“A fancy time,” the “Peter Pan” musician, 28, captioned a Saturday, September 3, TikTok video. Within the clip, Ballerini somberly sat in her bathtub whereas a demo of Katie Gregson-MacLeod’s “Complicated” performed within the background.

Whereas Ballerini didn’t additional elaborate on her connection to the social media sound, the lyrics trace at an emotional breakup. “I’m carrying his boxers / I’m being a very good spouse. We gained’t be collectively / However perhaps the subsequent life,” the 19-year-old Scottish artist sang in her debut single. “I’m being a cool woman / I’m protecting it so tight. I carry him dwelling whereas my mates have a very good evening. I would like him like water, he thinks that I’m alright.”

She added within the observe: “I’m not feeling human / I feel he’s a very good man.”

The Tennessee native, for her half, sat bare within the bathtub whereas listening to the lyrics. Her eye make-up was visibly smudged, seemingly revealing that Ballerini had been crying.

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♬ complex (demo) – Katie Gregson-MacLeod

The nation singer can relate to Gregson-MacLeod’s emotional lyrics a few troublesome breakup as she and Evans, 37, introduced earlier this yr that that they had separated after practically 5 years of marriage.

“Buddies, I’ve all the time tried my finest to share my life with you in an actual and susceptible approach, whereas additionally defending layers of my private life as they unfold,” the “Gap within the Bottle” songstress wrote by way of her Instagram Story on Monday, August 29. “That is now public report so I wished you to listen to from me instantly that I’m going by a divorce.”

Ballerini continued on the time: “This deeply troublesome resolution is the results of a journey of affection, development, and energy that in the end has come to an finish. It’s exhausting to seek out the phrases right here … however I really feel extraordinarily grateful for the years of marriage to Morgan and longing for the subsequent seasons. With very energetic schedules arising, please be aware that we’re each fragile, actively therapeutic, and displaying up the most effective we are able to.”

Us Weekly confirmed that Ballerini had filed for divorce from the Australia native the earlier Friday and cited “irreconcilable variations” because the trigger for his or her break up.

Evans, for his half, broke his silence a number of hours later, seemingly hinting it was not a mutual resolution.

“I’m very unhappy to verify that after nearly 5 years of marriage, Kelsea and I are parting methods,”  the “Day Drunk” singer wrote on Monday. “I want it have been in any other case however sadly it isn’t.”

Ballerini and Evans — who wed in December 2017 — had been struggling to take care of their relationship for a number of years earlier than the August divorce submitting.

“They’ve been engaged on their marriage for a few years and have even tried remedy,” a supply solely informed Us final month, noting that the pair had “privately separated” at one level earlier than reconciling. “They in the end determined that that they had no alternative however to formally separate.”

Following their break up, each Ballerini and Evans have been centered on their careers and their forthcoming fall live performance excursions. [The “Heartfirst” singer can be gearing as much as launch her subsequent album, Topic to Change, later this month. Her first single — titled “What I Have” — dropped on Friday, September 2.

“This track was written someplace in between reflection and eagerness,” Ballerini tweeted on Friday. “Though ever altering, I’m proud of what I’ve.”

In “What I Have,” she croons about being “proud of what I’ve” in life, together with a “dream” profession, a Jeep car and a devoted pup.