Maren Morris shocked followers two months in the past when it was revealed she had filed for divorce from Ryan Hurd, her husband of 5 years. Though the Grammy winner had alluded to the cut up on social media, she simply broke her silence on the state of affairs for the primary time.
“I feel this 12 months has — for lots of people, not simply me — lots of people which can be near me have gone via it. I’ve recognized so many individuals which have gone via breakups or divorces,” she shared on Wednesday’s Howard Stern Present on SiriusXM. Morris referred to as the divorce “ongoing” and mentioned she “would love this to kind of wrap up.”
When requested by Stern if she was relationship once more, the 33-year-old replied, “No.”
“I haven’t got the headspace for that but,” she defined, noting that she was “writing a lot” within the wake of the breakup. “That is type of been my approach of relationship is simply via music.”
Though Morris credited her ex with serving to her via postpartum melancholy (they share 3-year-old son Hayes), she alluded to this being a troublesome 12 months whereas discussing her new look.
“I reduce all of the trauma out of my hair,” she quipped.
Have a look again at Morris and Hurd’s love story.
October 2023
The singer filed paperwork on Oct. 2, which can be the date of separation listed. That means the demise of their relationship was sudden. Though the press would not study of the breakup for 2 extra weeks, Morris dropped hints that the wedding was over.
On Oct. 5, Morris was photographed with out her wedding ceremony ring throughout a live performance. She went ringless once more whereas attending the Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour film premiere on Oct. 11.
September 2023
Hurd, 36, and Morris, 33, attended the U.S. Open in New York Metropolis on Sept. 2, which seems to be their final official look collectively.
A number of weeks later, when Morris introduced that she was leaving nation music, Hurd posted a candy tribute on Instagram.
“She deserves to be celebrated, not simply tolerated,” he wrote on Sept. 20. “Most individuals would simply shut up and hold amassing the paycheck, as a result of the wave of vitriol is actual and it’s arduous. I’m so sick of watching my spouse get the shit kicked out of her by the web. I am sick of each speaking head having some type of silly opinion about what she says.”
March 2022
Whereas selling her third album, for which her household was an enormous inspiration, Morris revealed her battle with postpartum melancholy. She credited Hurd with serving to her get via it and mentioned their relationship obtained deeper in the course of the pandemic.
“I do check-ins on a regular basis [with] remedy, which I’ve completed for years, and my husband was an enormous assist diagnosing that too,” she shared, noting that the melancholy eased round six months. “Typically it is simply somebody actually near you saying, ‘Are you OK?’ It is so easy, nevertheless it type of snaps you out of no matter fog you are in that you simply assume is regular however is not.”
Morris declared: “I would not have made it via with my head this excessive with out [Hurd].” As for his or her relationship, she mentioned “essentially the most time we had ever spent with one another” was in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“And we had a child, so we had been attending to know one another in a deeper approach,” she added. “We undoubtedly obtained stronger.”
February 2021
Hurd and Morris launched their first duet, “Chasing After You.”
“Maren and I met writing songs and we have sung on one another’s information and written collectively, however that is the primary time we have gotten to do an precise duet collectively,” Hurd mentioned in a press launch. “It feels just like the timing is de facto excellent and it is a full-circle second to get to make music collectively on this approach.”
March 2020
Morris gave beginning to her and Hurd’s youngster, a child boy named Hayes.
October 2019
Morris introduced that she was pregnant. “The irony is simply too wealthy that after a 12 months of dwelling within the GIRL headspace, the universe would give us a child boy to even issues out,” she posted on Instagram, referencing her newest album. “See you in 2020, baby.”
March 2019
Morris alluded to bother on her hit music “The Bones,” however the lyrics prompt the couple was working via it: “We’re within the residence stretch of the excessive occasions / We took a tough left, however we’re alright / Yeah, life positive can attempt to put love via it, however / We constructed this proper, so nothing’s ever gonna transfer it.”
In a March interview with Esquire, the singer mentioned the pair went via robust occasions after their wedding ceremony in March 2018.
“It was most likely the toughest a part of our relationship,” she recalled. “We went on our honeymoon, after which I instantly went on this gigantic tour opening for Niall Horan. It was extra worldwide touring than I had ever completed. And I used to be gone greater than I had ever been on every other tour.”
Whereas Hurd’s “at all times been the man to return to me,” Morris mentioned it was now her flip to “should be the woman coming to him” as a result of the songwriter deliberate to launch extra music beneath his personal title.
“It was a tricky summer season,” she continued. “However we have now grown a lot nearer as a result of we needed to make some arduous choices and have some robust talks about what this future appears like and the way we are able to make this higher.” She added: “I’ve at all times beloved him, however I really feel like I like him in methods I by no means knew I might earlier than.”
Morris mentioned she needed “to raised” herself earlier than considering of rising their household.
“Speaking about the potential of having youngsters, I would love our minds to be as doctored up earlier than we deliver one other particular person into the world,” she famous.
March 2018
Morris and Hurd tied the knot in Nashville.
July 2017
Hurd popped the query. Morris introduced their engagement on Instagram by posting a collection of photographs by which her diamond ring was on full show. (The submit has since been deleted.)
January 2017
In an interview with Folks, Morris opened up about the way it’s nice relationship one other musician.
“It’s been wonderful to undergo this very loopy journey with somebody on the identical tempo and lean on one another via all of these generally scary moments,” Morris shared as she was on the brink of embark on her first headlining tour.
Nonetheless, the “Woman” singer admitted there have been challenges, too.
“Our schedules are primarily reverse of each other except we’re doing a present collectively or there’s an award present or one thing. However the upside is that you simply get to develop with somebody,” she mentioned. “You want somebody there that will get what you are going via. I am fortunate that he does.”
December 2015
Hurd and Morris formally began relationship.
2013
The singers met writing “Final Flip House” for Tim McGraw.
“We had been each at totally different publishing corporations, and our publishers’ job is to fill our calendars up, so they simply randomly put us collectively on a write in the future,” Morris recalled to Folks journal years later. Whereas she mentioned “it was the beginning of a beautiful writing relationship,” it was additionally the beginning of one thing extra.
“It is one in every of my favourite songs that we have ever been part of. It is simply loopy to look again on that second the place we had been each simply songwriters, solely, and that music has held a lot weight through the years. The that means behind the music truly means extra now to me and Ryan, in a bizarre approach — years later, it kind of hit us what the music meant,” she added.
It did not flip romantic straight away, although.
“We had been associates for less than a few years, however there was at all times this writing chemistry within the room, and ultimately, the timing of it was simple,” she shared. “We had such a basis constructed off writing so many songs through the years that we had been like, ‘Why are we avoiding this?'”
Editor’s be aware: This story was initially printed on Oct. 18, 2023, and has been up to date with new info.
