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- Kelsea Ballerini is greatest often known as a rustic singer.
- She just lately confirmed she’s relationship Chase Stokes.
- She was formally married to Morgan Evans.
- Kelsea just lately opened up about how she and Chase met and the struggles together with her divorce from Morgan, in an interview.
Kelsea Ballerini, 29, is glowing within the happiness of her new romance with Chase Stokes. The singer just lately revealed she’s relationship the hunk in an episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast, and even gave particulars about how they met. She additionally opened up about her divorce from her former husband Morgan Evans, and talked in regards to the struggles she’s needed to undergo.
Find out extra about Chase and his romance with Kelsea in addition to Kelsea’s marriage to Morgan under.
Chase Stokes
Kelsea confirmed that she was in a brand new romance with Chase on the Call Her Daddy podcast, which aired on Feb. 22. When requested if she was single, she answered, “Nope! I’m just vibing,” earlier than moving into extra particulars about her connection to Chase. “It’s all really new to me,” she stated in regards to the romance. “I’m tiptoeing, but I’m happy. It’s been a really beautiful reawakening.”
“I slid into his DMs,” she proudly added, referring to how they met. “I was just like…I’m not going to get on the apps. And he shoots [Outer Banks] in Charleston and my manager lives there. He put the bug in my ear. He’s like, ‘You know who’s really cute when you’re ready…’ and I’m like, ‘You’re so right!’ I’ve never seen the show but I knew of him. I followed him, he followed me and I swan dove right in.”
“His handle is @HiChaseStokes, so I said, ‘Hi, Chase Stokes,’” she laughed. She went on to verify that they first began speaking in Dec. 2022 and stated, they’re “just having fun.”
Chase is greatest identified as an actor and has appeared in numerous options, together with the Netflix collection, Outer Banks, since 2020. After he was born in Annapolis, MD, he moved to Georgia and Florida, the place he grew up as a teen. He went on to attend Valencia College, University of Central Florida, and Seminole State College, and initially wished to be an ice hockey participant earlier than he dived into appearing in 2014.
Since beginning their romance, Kelsea and Chase have confirmed off glimpses of their new love story on Instagram. One photograph confirmed them cozying up to one another at a soccer sport and a video confirmed a peek of Chase laying on a mattress as he frolicked with Kelsea.
Morgan Evans
Before Kelsea obtained romantically concerned with Chase, she was married to singer Morgan for nearly 5 years from 2017 till 2022. They met whereas co-hosting Australia’s Country Music Channel Awards in Morgan’s homeland in March of 2016. He proposed that Christmas, they usually have been married a 12 months later in Mexico on Dec. 2, 2017. They usually shared memorable moments of their life collectively on social media and gave the impression to be blissfully in love.
By Aug. 2022, that they had introduced their break up. “This is now public record so I wanted you to hear from me directly that I am going through a divorce,” Kelsea wrote on Instagram on the time. “This deeply difficult decision is the result of a journey of love, growth and effort that has ultimately come to an end.” Their divorce was three months later, in Nov.
During her Feb. 2023 interview with the Call Her Daddy podcast, Kelsea spoke out about her divorce from Morgan and made headlines with some feedback. “I didn’t want to have a wedding. I swore I would never get married,” she stated on the present. “I think he loved me more at 23. And I love me more at 29.”
She additionally confirmed the divorce obtained “nasty,” and stated she didn’t know the sort of “character” Morgan was on the time their marriage ended. “As he’s putting out a song about being blindsided, he’s taking half the house that he didn’t pay for,” she stated. “How was I married to this person for this long and had no idea that that bit of character was tucked within that human being?”
It didn’t take lengthy for Morgan to reply to her ideas together with his personal Instagram put up. He referred to as her feedback “sad” and never “reality”, and requested individuals to not be “mean” to both of them. He additionally stated he hopes she will “heal.”
“It’s really sad for me to see this person, 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,” Morgan wrote in his put up. “She knows I’m not the type of guy to speak on those things publicly.”
“If this is what she needs to heal, I hope it helps,” he added. “All I ask is if that you’re on my pages, please don’t be mean. Don’t be mean to Kelsea, don’t be mean to each other. Life’s too short.”
Kelsea unfollowed Morgan on Instagram round Feb. 27, after confirming her romance with Chase. As of Feb. 28, he was nonetheless following her.