Maren Morris on Mates ‘Choosing Sides’ After Ryan Hurd Divorce
Maren Morris is opening up about her divorce from Ryan Hurd.
The singer, 35, addressed the tip of her marriage to Hurd, 38, on the Thursday, June 19, version of the “Therapuss” podcast.
“In Nashville, you understand I’ve been divorced for a bit of over a yr now,” Morris mentioned. “It’s a small city and we’re all buddies and all of us work collectively, and the music trade could be very tiny there.”
She mentioned that she’s “actually pleasant with my ex and now we have our son [Hayes, 5], that’s at all times our greatest precedence. It’s bizarre as a result of we had been collectively for therefore lengthy that so lots of our buddies needed to kind of… .”
“Decide sides?” interjected host Jake Shane.
“Yeah, properly simply when it comes to respect for one another,” Morris replied. “I noticed a extremely shut pal of my ex’s at a bar a pair months in the past, and I used to be with my greatest pal, and all of us used to hang around collectively for a decade or extra — after which it’s like, rattling, it’s simply going to be form of bizarre. Perhaps it’s simply going to be bizarre for the primary few years, I don’t know.”
Morris and Hurd first met throughout a writing session for Tim McGraw’s music “Final Flip House” in 2013. The duo had been buddies for 2 years earlier than their relationship turned romantic. Hurd proposed to Morris in July 2017, and the couple wed in March 2018, welcoming Hayes two years later.
In 2023, Morris filed for divorce from Hurd. The exes finalized their separation the next yr, splitting joint custody of Hayes.
She instructed “Therapuss” that she’s misplaced friendships as a result of cut up and different life adjustments prior to now few years. She mentioned that she felt “like [the] Covid [pandemic] modified lots of people. Once I had my son, I might really feel folks fall away.”
She added that new motherhood is “already such a lonely time, and also you’re very remoted,” however she “definitely made buddies who’re mothers via the method, and there are some badass b****es that acquired me via a number of that, however yeah, you simply naturally form of understand, ‘Oh these folks most likely put me in a unique drawer.’”
Earlier this month, Morris appeared on the “Expensive Chelsea” podcast and mentioned she’s “fortunate” that she and Hurd “love one another a lot nonetheless,” including, “We’ve got the best respect, but additionally there may be that devastation that two folks [who] love one another that a lot can’t make it work in the actual world. It’s at all times going to be multifaceted. I feel, in the end, we each knew it was most likely going to be higher this fashion, which is a hit.”