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Yahoo
22-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Maren Morris Says She Realized Divorce Is 'Weird' When Her Mutual Friends with Ex Ryan Hurd Chose 'Sides'
Maren Morris opened up about pals picking "sides" after her divorce from ex Ryan Hurd Morris said their mutual friends had to choose out of "respect for each other" and she figured it would be "weird for the first few years" The "Girl" singer filed for divorce in October 2023; it was finalized in January 2024Maren Morris is opening up about the intricacies of divorce. During an appearance on Therapuss with Jake Shane on Wednesday, June 18, the "My Church" singer got candid about going through a divorce in a "small town" like Nashville — where she and ex Ryan Hurd have mutual friends. 'In Nashville, you know I've been divorced for a little over a year now. It's a small town, and we're all friends, and we all work together, and the music industry is very tiny there," Morris, 35, said of Hurd, 38. Though the exes are "really friendly," she said it's "weird" because their friends had to "pick sides." "Just in terms of respect for each other," she said. "I saw a really close friend of my ex's at a bar a couple months ago, and I was with my best friend. We all used to hang out together for a decade or more and then it's like, 'Damn, it's just going to be kind of weird.' Maybe it's just going to be weird for the first few years." Morris and Hurd — who share 5-year-old son Hayes — met in 2013 when they wrote "Last Turn Home" for Tim McGraw, but their romance didn't blossom until a few years later. They married in March 2018. Morris filed for divorce in October 2023, and the exes reached a settlement agreement three months later. They finalized their divorce in January 2024. On Therapuss, Morris said that as she got older, she realized people who aren't "energetically aligned" started to "fade away" from her life. "I have these people who have been my ride or dies but I feel like COVID changed a lot of people, when I had my son I could feel people fall away," she continued. "I think when you have kids sometimes... I think as a new mother it's already such a lonely time and you're very isolated plus it was COVID. But I certainly made friends who are moms through the process." Morris' comments come after she made an appearance on the Dear Chelsea podcast and revealed she and Hurd were able to move past a lot of their problems to put their son first. "We're over a year out now ... we get along now and have moved past a lot of it," Morris said. "We're neighbors, and I'm just so fortunate that we have put our son above each other's s---, and it's better for the two of us if we're getting along." "I'm lucky that we love each other so much still," she said. "We have the highest respect, but also there is that devastation that two people [who] love each other that much can't make it work in the real world. It's always going to be multifaceted." Read the original article on People
Yahoo
20-06-2025
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Maren Morris Says She Realized Divorce Is 'Weird' When Her Mutual Friends with Ex Ryan Hurd Chose 'Sides'
Maren Morris opened up about friends picking "sides" after her divorce from ex Ryan Hurd Morris said their mutual friends had to choose out of "respect for each other" and she figured it would be "weird for the first few years" The "Girl" singer filed for divorce in October 2023Maren Morris is opening up about the intricacies of divorce. During an appearance on Therapuss with Jake Shane on Wednesday, June 18, the "My Church" singer got candid about going through a divorce in a "small town" like Nashville — where she and ex Ryan Hurd have mutual friends. 'In Nashville, you know I've been divorced for a little over a year now. It's a small town, and we're all friends, and we all work together, and the music industry is very tiny there," Morris, 35, said of Hurd, 38. Though the exes are "really friendly," she said it's "weird" because their friends had to "pick sides." "Just in terms of respect for each other," she said. "I saw a really close friend of my ex's at a bar a couple months ago, and I was with my best friend. We all used to hang out together for a decade or more and then it's like, 'Damn, it's just going to be kind of weird.' Maybe it's just going to be weird for the first few years." Morris and Hurd — who share 5-year-old son Hayes — met in 2013 when they wrote "Last Turn Home" for Tim McGraw, but their romance didn't blossom until a few years later. They married in March 2018. Morris filed for divorce in October 2023, and the exes reached a settlement agreement three months later. They finalized their divorce in January 2024. On Therapuss, Morris said that as she got older, she realized people who aren't "energetically aligned" started to "fade away" from her life. "I have these people who have been my ride or dies but I feel like COVID changed a lot of people, when I had my son I could feel people fall away," she continued. "I think when you have kids sometimes... I think as a new mother it's already such a lonely time and you're very isolated plus it was COVID. But I certainly made friends who are moms through the process." Morris' comments come after she made an appearance on the Dear Chelsea podcast and revealed she and Hurd were able to move past a lot of their problems to put their son first. "We're over a year out now ... we get along now and have moved past a lot of it," Morris said. "We're neighbors, and I'm just so fortunate that we have put our son above each other's s---, and it's better for the two of us if we're getting along." "I'm lucky that we love each other so much still," she said. "We have the highest respect, but also there is that devastation that two people [who] love each other that much can't make it work in the real world. It's always going to be multifaceted." Read the original article on People
Daily Mail
04-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Maren Morris celebrates major milestone after coming out and calling out 'toxic' country music community
Maren Morris has celebrated her first-ever Pride since officially coming out as bisexual. In video obtained exclusively by Morris rejoices over the milestone during her performance at Outloud Music Festival last week. 'My name is Maren Morris, and this is my first Pride!' she declares, sparking rapturous cheer from the crowd. Morris, 35, came out as bisexual last June, announcing to Instagram followers that she was 'Happy to be the B in LGBTQ +, happy pride!' On Friday, the country singer was one of the headliners kicking off Pride Month at Outloud Festival, an LGBTQ+ music festival held in the heart of West Hollywood. Morris continued to revel in the moment with behind-the-scenes snaps from her epic show. 'performing at my first Pride since I came out last summer and @wehopride couldn't have been a more welcoming party. happy Pride month,' she captioned the Instagram post, uploaded over the weekend. Fans praised Morris in the comments, with one thanking her for leaving a positive impact on their family. 'Thank you for making my kiddo feel comfortable in their true selves,' one posted. 'I didn't know you came out! Loved you before & love you now even more!' another wrote. 'Welcome to the fam!!' another gushed. Lance Bass chimed in as well: 'Loved it!' he raved. Morris was previously married to fellow country crooner Ryan Hurd, and they share five-year-old son Hayes Andrew Hurd together. The Girl singer recently said she 'always knew' she was attracted to both men and women but held back from ever going public with it. 'I've always known that I am attracted to men and women,' she told The Zoe Report last month. 'I think because I've been in straight relationships the last 15 years of my life, which has been consumed by my music career and living in Nashville, I never felt brave enough to talk about it.' In June 2024, however, she finally overcame that fear. 'That was just a facet of me that I didn't think I wanted private anymore. I wanted to be able to connect with my fans and my queer community,' she said. 'Especially in a time where you're in this free-for-all post-divorce reckoning, community has been so necessary for me and life-saving. Being honest and being vulnerable is the only way that you find community.' Maren's personal revelation comes over a year after she declared she was leaving the 'toxic' world of country music. The Middle singer told the New York Times' Popcast podcast back in September 2023 she felt 'like l have to absorb and explain people's bad behaviors and laugh it off.' Morris recently said she 'always knew' she was attracted to both men and women but held herself back from ever going public with it The hitmaker added, 'I just couldn't do that after 2020 particularly. I've changed. A lot of things changed about me that year.' 'I don't want to say goodbye, but I really cannot participate in the really toxic arms of this institution anymore,' she said. She also told the Los Angeles Times: 'I thought I'd like to burn it to the ground and start over. But it's burning itself down without my help.' But Maren has since clarified she 'never said she was leaving country music' in a recent interview with The Guardian. Maren called the headline of the LA Times article - which was titled 'Maren Morris is getting the hell out of country music: "I've said everything I can say"' - 'really unfortunate.' 'I never said I'm leaving country music, because that's not really how I feel at all,' she calmly told the publication. 'You hear country music on this album. You can't just intentionally take the parts away. There would be nothing left of the sound of me. Because it's just there. It's in my bones and it's in the way I write. She said the article 'caused a ton of unnecessary drama for me from that community because I was already sort of on the outs. I'm not backtracking what I said, I just never said that.' The singer, who has been a Nashville resident for 12 years, added 'it's not going to be some tussle that's going to make me change my address.' Though she moved label divisions, no longer does the country radio circuit, and doesn't submit her music to the Country Music Awards or the Academy of Country Music Awards, the singer still works with all the same people. 'It would be strange to be like: "This music isn't me anymore,"' she explained. 'That makes me feel like I'm shitting on the music I've already put out, and that's not how I feel at all 'The fans that I've made and the communities those fans have made through being a fan of my music is so important to me,' she added, 'so to ever come out of my mouth saying: "I'm leaving you behind" – I'd never be so reckless and stupid.' Regarding her new album Dreamsicle, the singer said: 'If you dive deep enough, or if you just listen to the album, it's very clear that I haven't left anything behind.'
Daily Mail
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
A-list country star reveals she unintentionally plagiarized Dolly Parton's biggest hit
Maren Morris admits she accidentally lifted multiple elements from Dolly Parton 's 1980 classic 9 to 5 for her own track. The Grammy-winning artist, 35, explained what had happened - and how Parton, again reaffirmed why she's one of the most beloved figures in show business - while appearing on the Zach Sang Show. 'I think that's, like, any songwriter's worst fear is unintentionally being on top of a melody that already exists and, you know, it happens more than you think,' the Grammy-winning artist said. She added: 'I think when I write with so many different people - and play the song so many times for loved ones before it ever gets into the public - There's always, like, checks and balances.' The country music artist said that extended collaborations produce 'checks and balances' and the extra experts in the room can help determine when a melody 'is a little bit too close to [another] song. Morris explained the situation that stemmed from the 2019 release of her track All My Favorite People, which also featured Brothers Osborne, as she ultimately felt it sounded too much like Dolly Parton's 1980 hit 9 to 5. 'There's a song on my second record called All My Favorite People - and I remember it was like two weeks till the record was out - and my mom was actually the one that was like, "I kind of noticed the verse/melody, sounds a little bit like 9 to 5,"' Morris said. All My Favorite People was co-written by Morris's ex-husband Ryan Hurd, who she parted ways with last year; and Grammy-nominated songwriter Mikey Reaves. The track was produced by Morris and the late music producer busbee (whose full name was Michael James Ryan) who died in September of 2019 at the age of 43. The Middle singer said her 'stomach dropped' when her mother told her she felt that there were noticeable similarities between her track and the Parton staple. 'She was genuinely trying to give me a heads up,' Morris said, 'and I listened to it immediately.' The Bones singer said that at that point she compared the songs and realized they sounded alike. Morris said she told Parton about her concern about the similarities, but the Jolene artist couldn't have been sweeter. Morris said that 'it was close enough' that she felt awful about what had happened - and was looking for a way to reach out to Parton's camp and offer her a songwriting credit on the track (which was not released as a single). 'I remember, like, writing something to her,' Morris said of Parton. Morris said Parton told her, 'Oh, my gosh, honey, you're all good,' adding that she didn't take any money but 'would have made something' had she pursued a legal settlement. The My Church artist added that Parton extended a courtesy to her that many of their peers would not have, as 'a lot of other artists are litigious' and would wait for the song to make as much money as possible before pursuing litigation. 'It's just it's such a nightmare for songwriters, who are already like, also so underpaid,' the Circles Around This Town singer added. Morris said she and Parton have since worked together.
South China Morning Post
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Country star Maren Morris talks about Dreamsicle, and why it is more than a divorce album
When country music star Maren Morris voiced support for the LBGTQ community, she thought she was doing it as an ally. She did not realise it at the time, but she was speaking up for herself, too. Advertisement 'I just maybe, internally, hadn't had the bravery to go there in myself, and say the words out loud,' said Morris, who recently came out as bisexual 'When you spend the majority of your life in straight relationships and you haven't explored that part of yourself … is now the right time for me to tell everyone [that] while I'm married, 'Hi, I'm also attracted to women'?' The Grammy winner, who has also stood in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and with immigrants, has experienced drastic life changes throughout the past year, including her divorce from singer-songwriter Ryan Hurd. These experiences shaped Dreamsicle, her fourth studio album, which is out now. 'There's a freedom that I've found in this album that's a new version of what I thought I had,' Morris explained. 'It's just more wise and lived in. And maybe part of that's just like being in your thirties – you just don't care as much.'
