A long time within the making! Reba McEntire and Rex Linn first crossed paths 30 years earlier than they began courting.
The “Fancy” songstress met the actor whereas capturing 1991’s The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw.
“We’ve stored involved with one another through the years, and we each know the identical individuals, so it was similar to good associates getting again collectively having dinner in January,” she defined on Watch What Occurs Stay With Andy Cohen in November 2020. “After which we began texting and speaking on the phone, attending to know one another higher through the quarantine.”
McEntire was beforehand married to Charlie Battles from 1976 to 1987 and music supervisor Narvel Blackstock from 1989 to 2015. She shares son Shelby, born in 1990, with Blackstock.
“The divorce was not my concept. I didn’t need it in any form, kind or trend,” the nation music legend informed CMT’s Cody Alan in 2016. ”So it was actually arduous to make the adjustment, when somebody’s not completely happy. I simply need everyone to be completely happy of their lives, as a result of our lives are too quick to be depressing.”
She added on the time: ”The factor that received me via this transformation in life, is primary, God. I prayed day-after-day to assist me have the energy to maneuver one foot in entrance of the opposite, and proceed on with what I’m presupposed to be doing … after which with my group … and my associates, my household, my girlfriends.”
Regardless of the divorce, McEntire stayed near the Blackstock household, together with stepson Brandon Blackstock and Kelly Clarkson, who introduced their break up in June 2020 after almost seven years of marriage. (The previous couple share daughter River and son Remington.)
“We’re household,” McEntire informed Us Weekly in 2019 earlier than Clarkson and Brandon’s break up. “She married my oldest son, Brandon, however we’re additionally good associates, in order that goes a great distance — when you may have a superb pal as part of your loved ones.”
Extra not too long ago, after the American Idol alum’s divorce received messy, she informed Additional: “I like them each. … I’m pulling for each of them. I hope they’re completely happy and wholesome and pull via this. I pray everybody offers them the encouragement they will as a result of they want it proper now, each of them do. I like the each of them with all my coronary heart.”
The Reba alum, in the meantime, made issues crimson carpet official with Linn throughout fall 2020 and the pair have been exhibiting off their love ever since.
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