A big milestone! Kelsea Ballerini and Chase Stokes had been all smiles all through their red carpet debut on the 2023 CMT Music Awards on Sunday, April 2.
Ballerini, 29, and Stokes, 30, posed for footage at the Moody Center in Austin, Texas, prior to the rustic singer took the degree as a cohost along Kane Brown. In addition to appearing all the way through the awards show, Ballerini has been nominated for Female Video of the Year for her “HEARTFIRST” visible.
Stokes’ show of support for his girlfriend comes after they recently took their relationship public. The Tennessee local presented a glimpse at her romance when she opened up about their first interaction.
“His care for is ‘hichasestokes’ and I just mentioned, ‘Hi Chase Stokes,’” she shared throughout an appearance on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast in February. “I've my s–t in combination and for me to share that with any person is a present. I want to be with any person that feels the same method about their lifestyles. … I’m a courting whinge.”
Ballerini famous that she wasn’t frightened about ex-husband Morgan Evans‘ reaction, adding, “I’m not married to him anymore and I don’t need to care about his feelings anymore. I mean that with the entire appreciate on the planet, however his adventure is not mine.”
The “Blindsided” songstress broke the scoop in August 2022 about her and Evans’ split after nearly five years of marriage.
“Friends, I’ve at all times tried my highest to proportion my lifestyles with you in an actual and susceptible manner, while also protecting layers of my personal lifestyles as they unfold,” the ”Hole in the Bottle” singer wrote by way of her Instagram Story on the time. “This is now public file, so I sought after you to listen to from me directly that I am going through a divorce.”
She concluded: “This deeply difficult resolution is the results of a journey of love, growth, and effort that ultimately has come to an finish. It’s hard to seek out the phrases here … but I think extraordinarily thankful for the years of marriage to Morgan and eager for the following seasons. With very energetic schedules arising, please bear in mind that we are both fragile, actively healing, and appearing up the most efficient we can.”
Following their break up, a supply exclusively advised Us Weekly that the pair faced many “issues” in their marriage before pulling the plug. “Kelsea was once very younger and naive when she met Morgan, they clicked instantly, however their courting was all the time an emotional roller-coaster,” the insider published in March, noting that their “intense romance” went through periods of “friction, stress and toxicity.”
According to the supply, Ballerini was “not ready” to expand her family with Evans, 37. “Morgan [had] been in a position for a long time,” the insider added. “They had been having issues, in terms of each other and trouble being sort to each other, however the war of words over kids used to be the nail in the coffin.”
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Stokes, for his section, previously made headlines for his high-profile romance with Outer Banks costar Madelyn Cline. The duo, who parted tactics in November 2021 after more than one yr of dating, have praised their approach to working together post-split.
“Mads and I've been running together now for 30 episodes, and we made a promise to each other sooner than we even began courting that the paintings used to be all the time going to come first,” the Maryland local instructed Entertainment Weekly in February. “And that it doesn't matter what happens in our personal lives, and the ways in which life now and again takes you in several instructions, that we’re at all times going to honor the work. That stayed one hundred % truthful this season.”
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