Maren Morris is opening up about her divorce from Ryan Hurd.
The singer, 35, addressed the end of her marriage to Hurd, 38, on the Thursday, June 19, edition of the “Therapuss” podcast.
“In Nashville, you know I’ve been divorced for a little over a year now,” Morris said. “It’s a small town and we’re all friends and we all work together, and the music industry is very tiny there.”
She said that she’s “really friendly with my ex and we have our son [Hayes, 5], that’s always our biggest priority. It is weird because we were together for so long that so many of our friends had to sort of… .”
“Pick sides?” interjected host Jake Shane.
“Yeah, well just in terms of respect for each other,” Morris replied. “I saw a really close friend of my ex’s at a bar a couple months ago, and I was with my best friend, and 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, I don’t know.”
Morris and Hurd first met during a writing session for Tim McGraw’s song “Last Turn Home” in 2013. The duo were friends for two years before their relationship turned romantic. Hurd proposed to Morris in July 2017, and the couple wed in March 2018, welcoming Hayes two years later.
In 2023, Morris filed for divorce from Hurd. The exes finalized their separation the following year, splitting joint custody of Hayes.
She told “Therapuss” that she’s lost friendships due to the split and other life changes in the past few years. She said that she felt “like [the] Covid [pandemic] changed a lot of people. When I had my son, I could feel people fall away.”
She added that new motherhood is “already such a lonely time, and you’re very isolated,” but she “certainly made friends who are moms through the process, and there are some badass b****es that got me through a lot of that, but yeah, you just naturally kind of realize, ‘Oh those people probably put me in a different drawer.’”
Earlier this month, Morris appeared on the “Dear Chelsea” podcast and said she’s “lucky” that she and Hurd “love each other so much still,” adding, “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. I think, ultimately, we both knew it was probably going to be better this way, which is a success.”
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