Blake Shelton has never treated his 2015 divorce from Miranda Lambert as a forbidden subject. Us Weekly has gathered his most candid comments about the split. The clearest thread running through them is speed. He described a marriage that ended in under two weeks once the paperwork went in.
Shelton and Lambert announced the end of their four-year marriage in July 2015. Their joint statement to Us Weekly included the line: “This is not the future we envisioned.
Blake Shelton explained the timeline on the Bobby Bones Show in September 2015. “In Oklahoma, it happens so fast,” he said. He laid out why. According to Us Weekly, he told the show the couple had no children and had a prenuptial agreement. Once they filed, he estimated it was over after a waiting period of nine or ten days.
Nine days.
Four years of marriage, two of the biggest names in country music, and the legal end took less time than a typical tour leg. Shelton described it plainly. No hint of a drawn-out fight over property or custody.
Speed on paper and speed in the heart run on different clocks, though. A divorce can be final in Oklahoma long before anyone involved feels finished with it.
The Couple Agreed to Stay Civil After the Split
Shelton told the same show that he and Lambert made a pact early. “We are going to be cool about this, it is what it is,” he said.
He followed it with two words: “We’re buddies.”
Lambert, for her part, took her version to the stage. Days after the announcement, Us Weekly reported, she told a Nashville crowd she had been living on caffeine and sad songs.
Shelton’s promise to stay buddies and Lambert’s night of sad songs sit side by side without contradiction. Civility is an agreement about behaviour. Nothing in it says how much anyone is hurting. Two people can promise to stay decent and still lean on a room full of strangers and a setlist of sad songs to get through the week.
Shelton Jokes About His ‘Divorce Diet’ and Weight Loss
Us Weekly noted that fans spotted Shelton’s weight loss after the breakup. He addressed it on America’s Morning Show in September 2015, telling host Blair Garner, “you should try the divorce diet.” He kept the joke going. “I’m not eating as many fried pickles and stuff,” he said, before calling the stress of the whole thing just weird.
Humour was his cover and his honesty at once. Shelton made the line funny, but the admission underneath was real.
Stress changed his body enough that people noticed.
Shelton Says He Is in a Good Place and Jokes About the CMAs
Weeks later, Blake Shelton sounded steadier. He told the CMT Hot 20 Countdown show, “I’m in a good place. I wasn’t, but I am now.”
Shelton put the weight in the middle of that sentence. “I wasn’t.” He did not pretend the first stretch was easy. He did not dwell on it either. He admitted the hard part, then called it amazing how quickly life can turn around.
Shelton also saw the awkward moments coming. On Late Night With Seth Meyers that month he predicted the CMAs would be uncomfortable, and joked that host Brad Paisley should call out the elephant in the room.
Shelton and Lambert agreed on how to behave first, then let the feelings arrive on their own schedule.
Both have since remarried. Shelton is married to Gwen Stefani, and Lambert to Brendan McLaughlin. Nine or ten days ended the marriage on paper. The candid comments took a lot longer.
Sources: Us Weekly
