Kacey Musgraves and Cole Schafer split after two years of dating
Kacey Musgraves and her boyfriend of two years, Cole Schaferare split, We weekly can confirm.
“They couldn’t agree on where they are in life and decided to end it,” a source tells us exclusively Us of Musgraves, 35, and Schafer.
The musician and Schafer first sparked romance rumors in June 2021 when they were photographed hanging out together.
A few days later, Schafer made their relationship official on Instagram when he posted a photo of a Polaroid of the couple with the caption: “I’m trying not to fucking write about her.”
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In January, Musgraves wrote her own sweet tribute to her boyfriend to celebrate him turning another year older.
“Happy birthday to the brightest flame in my world. My deeper well. I love you, @cole_schafer,” Musgraves wrote one Instagram photo of himself and Schafer. “You are such a fixture in the lives of all the people who are lucky enough to really know you.”
After confirming their relationship status via social media, the couple wasn’t shy about sharing their love for each other.
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After Musgraves played New York’s Madison Square Garden in February 2022, the poet got to work Instagram to write a long message about his love for her.
‘She is the most naturally gifted human being I have ever experienced. I’ve read about performers vomiting in dimly lit bathroom stalls before pulling themselves on stage,” Schafer captioned a carousel of photos of the duo. “And while I think there’s something strangely romantic about this kind of torture, Kace floats around backstage like a butterfly who can’t decide where he wants to land… But besides being the most naturally gifted human being I’ve ever been around, which makes me what’s most impressive about her is that she’s the same person when she’s talking to my mother, my father, my grandfather, my brothers, or my best friend Jack, as she is when she’s talking to an arena. filled with 15,000 people.”
In August 2021, Musgraves reflected on her relationship with Schafer and their first meeting.
“He didn’t know who I was, what I loved,” the Grammy winner shared in one New York Times profile at the time. ‘A handful of grown men come out, sweating to keep up on the sidewalk. It feels very predatory.”
Musgraves was previously married to Ruston Kelly. The pair tied the knot in 2017 but called it quits three years later.
“I could have gone on for a few more years just by not paying attention to my feelings or not really addressing some things,” Musgraves said in the June/July 2021 issue of Elle magazine. However, the coronavirus pandemic forced her to ask herself some tough questions: “Why did I make these decisions? How did I get here? How can I avoid coming there again? Why do I keep choosing the same kind of people?”
With reporting by Travis Cronin