{"id":32769,"date":"2025-09-01T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=32769"},"modified":"2025-08-29T06:41:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T10:41:06","slug":"carly-pearce-opens-up-about-her-divorce-from-michael-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/09\/carly-pearce-opens-up-about-her-divorce-from-michael-ray\/","title":{"rendered":"Carly Pearce Opens Up About Her Divorce From Michael Ray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a recent appearance on Bunnie XO\u2019s Dumb Blonde podcast, Carly Pearce opened up about her 2020 divorce from fellow country star Michael Ray, which occurred less than a year after their wedding.<\/p>\n<p>Pearce described their whirlwind marriage as driven by passion rather than true love, while admitting that she knew on their wedding night that the relationship wasn\u2019t what she wanted.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t what I signed up for. It just wasn\u2019t the marriage that I know I deserved.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pearce chronicled that emotional turmoil in her 2021 EP, 29, and the companion full-length album, 29: Written in Stone.<\/p>\n<p>The singer revealed that the split was painful and complicated, involving infidelity hinted at in her hit song, \u201cWhat He Didn\u2019t Do,\u201d but she expressed gratitude for the strength she gained from the experience.<\/p>\n<p>Pearce has moved forward with her music career, earning Grammy and CMA nominations for her Chris Stapleton collaboration, \u201cWe Don\u2019t Fight Anymore,\u201d which was featured on her 2024 album, Hummingbird.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZhNM7N5w5kM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carly Pearce Opens Up About Her Divorce From Michael Ray On Bunnie XO\u2019s \u2018Dumb Blonde\u2019 Podcast","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":32062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[4897,42,44],"class_list":["post-32769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-bunnie-xo","tag-carly-pearce","tag-michael-ray"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 09:54:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/09\/carly-pearce-opens-up-about-her-divorce-from-michael-ray\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32771,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32769\/revisions\/32771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}