Following five years of marriage Maren Morris has filed for divorce from Ryan Hurd on October 2 in Tennessee.
According to the paperwork, the the now 33-year-old singer cited “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for their parting ways.
The news of their split comes soon after Maren announced that she was leaving country music as a result of feeling “very, very distanced” from the industry, stating “I couldn’t do this circus anymore – feeling like l have to absorb and explain people’s bad behaviors and laugh it off,” she said at the time. “I just couldn’t do that after 2020 particularly. I’ve changed. A lot of things changed about me that year.”
As the couple share a three-year-old son, Hayes Andrew, Morris and Hurd (now 36) were ordered to complete a parenting seminar which is typically required in Davidson County divorce cases that involve children.
Both singer-songwriters, Maren and Ryan first met while co-writing Tim McGraw’s 2014 track ‘Last Turn Home’ and they became romantically linked in 2015 and got engaged the following year. The musical duo married on March 24, 2018 in Nashville, Tennessee and welcomed their son in March of 2020.
Throughout their relationship, Morris and Hurn collaborated on several projects, including their 2021 Grammy-nominated duet ‘Chasing After You
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Author: Saul Goode
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