{"id":22851,"date":"2023-02-23T05:55:48","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T10:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=22851"},"modified":"2023-02-23T05:03:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T10:03:28","slug":"lee-brice-struggling-with-the-death-his-friend-kyle-jacobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/02\/lee-brice-struggling-with-the-death-his-friend-kyle-jacobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Brice Struggling With The Death His Friend Kyle Jacobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kellie Pickler&#8217;s husband, songwriter Kyle Jacobs, died of an apparent suicide last Friday, and now his longtime friend Lee Brice has opened up about it.<\/p>\n<p>He posted on Instagram yesterday and admitted he&#8217;s really been struggling.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;These past few days have truly been some of the hardest of my life. At times, I feel lost and buried under this deep sadness.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He also said he&#8217;s been trying to remember the good times they had, adding that Kyle was&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;without a doubt, one of the best people anyone could ever hope to have in their corner.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lee and Kyle wrote a ton of stuff together, including the hit song, &#8220;Rumor&#8221;. Kyle produced a lot of Lee&#8217;s other hits too, like &#8220;I Drive Your Truck&#8221;, &#8220;Hard to Love&#8221;, and &#8220;Boy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>They also co-wrote one of Garth Brooks&#8217; biggest hits, &#8220;More Than a Memory&#8221;.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Co-VYwWuOsX\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lee Brice says he&#8217;s struggling with the death of his good friend Kyle Jacobs. ","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":19282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[7463,7464,3545,617],"class_list":["post-22851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-kellie-pickler","tag-kyle-jacobs","tag-lee-brice","tag-suicide"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 14:45:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/02\/lee-brice-struggling-with-the-death-his-friend-kyle-jacobs\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}