Jason Isbell, Amanda Shires. Kevin Winter/Getty Photos
Jason Isbell is making it clear he didn’t cheat on estranged spouse Amanda Shires.
“I can’t consider I have to say this, however – my supervisor, enterprise supervisor, tour supervisor, tour assistant and each publicists are all ladies,” Isbell, 45, wrote through an Instagram assertion on Wednesday, April 3. “I’m very grateful for every of them. None of us have ever had any sort of romantic relationship in any manner.”
The Americana singer requested his followers to not “make up misogynistic nonsense tales” about his coworkers and share them on-line prefer it’s a reality.
“It’s arduous sufficient already for anyone who isn’t a straight white man in our enterprise,” he continued. “And now there are people contacting them and accusing them of ‘breaking apart a household.’ Cease it.”
Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires have been one among nation music’s greatest energy {couples} earlier than they ended their decade-long marriage in February 2024. Isbell noticed Shires play for the primary time in 2003 and met her at one among her gigs the next yr. The 2 shared a meet-cute as Isbell sat front-row to look at her […]
The Los Angeles Occasions reported that Isbell filed for divorce from Shires, who’s a singer-songwriter and violinist, in December 2023 after a decade of marriage. The exes wed in 2013 and share daughter Mercy, 8. The duo additionally often collaborated on a number of music tasks.
Earlier than their break up, Isbell and Shires, 42, received candid about how the ups and downs of their marriage impressed their songwriting course of for his or her 2020 album Reunions.
“At one level, I stated, ‘It’d be simpler if someone had cheated,’” Isbell advised the New York Occasions in Might 2020. “Then lets say, ‘You probably did this,’ or ‘I did this,’ and ‘Any person must be actual sorry.’ But it surely was extra like, ‘We don’t know one another proper now. We’re not in a position to communicate the identical language.’”
Shires famous that Isbell “was not possible” to work with throughout the recording course of, including, “It was like he wished assist however didn’t need assist.”
Two months after submitting for divorce, Isbell opened up about how he was faring following the breakup.
“I feel I can nonetheless handle to inform individuals who I’m and what the reality is from my perspective. It’s a type of issues the place not the whole lot that ends was a failure, you realize?” he stated throughout a February look on the “Damaged Data” podcast. “I feel we did quite a lot of actually lovely issues collectively and I’ve actually fond recollections of all of that, and I don’t remorse any of it, even the arduous stuff.”
A few of nation music’s biggest songs are about heartbreak — and the relationships that impressed them might be simply as dramatic. Shania Twain realized that firsthand when her husband of 14 years, Robert “Mutt” Lange, had an affair along with her former private assistant, Marie-Anne Thiébaud, in Might 2008. The pair referred to as it quits following the […]
Isbell defined that coming to phrases with the break up was much like his expertise along with his sobriety, which he achieved following an intervention in 2012.
“It’s like once I received into restoration, I wound up after a number of years wanting again and considering ‘I don’t remorse even the worst components of that’ as a result of all of it goes into making me who I’m,” he confessed. “And the time will come when the injuries aren’t nonetheless contemporary, the time will come once I’m in a position to take all this and put it into my work in a manner that’s sincere and true, however is smart for me.”
