Decades within the making! Reba McEntire and Rex Linn first crossed paths 30 years earlier than they began relationship.
The “Fancy” songstress met the actor whereas capturing 1991’s The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw.
“We’ve kept in contact with each other over the years, and we both know the same people, so it was just like good friends getting back together having dinner in January,” she defined on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen in November 2020. “And then we started texting and talking on the telephone, getting to know each other better during 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 idea. I didn’t want it in any shape, form or fashion,” the nation music legend informed CMT’s Cody Alan in 2016. ”So it was actually onerous to make the adjustment, when somebody’s not blissful. I simply need all people to be blissful of their lives, as a result of our lives are too quick to be depressing.”
She added on the time: ”The factor that obtained me by this variation in life, is primary, God. I prayed daily 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 workforce … and my mates, my household, my girlfriends.”
Despite the divorce, McEntire stayed near the Blackstock household, together with stepson Brandon Blackstock and Kelly Clarkson, who introduced their cut up in June 2020 after almost seven years of marriage. (The former couple share daughter River and son Remington.)
“We’re family,” McEntire informed Us Weekly in 2019 earlier than Clarkson and Brandon’s cut up. “She married my oldest son, Brandon, but we’re also good friends, so that goes a long way — when you can have a good friend as a part of your family.”
More not too long ago, after the American Idol alum’s divorce obtained messy, she informed Extra: “I love them both. … I am pulling for both of them. I hope they’re happy and healthy and pull through this. I pray everyone gives them the encouragement they can because they need it right now, both of them do. I love the both of them with all my heart.”
The Reba alum, in the meantime, made issues purple carpet official with Linn throughout fall 2020 and the pair have been displaying off their love ever since.
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