Kacey Musgraves on relationships amid divorce from Cole Schafer
Cole Schafer and Kacey Musgraves
Cindy Ord/MG22/Getty Images for The Met Museum/VogueKacey Musgraves got candid about her views on relationships and love after her divorce Cole Schafer.
“I don’t regret living and loving as hard as I do,” Musgraves, 35, said in an interview with The cut published on Friday March 1. “Every time I’m in a relationship, I’m totally the king. I think hesitation breeds hesitation and if you put one foot in something, it’s going to fail”
Musgraves admitted as much after her divorce from Ruston Kelly in 2020, she felt like she wanted to protect her heart, but she doesn’t want to close herself off to love in the future.
“After a divorce, it’s like, on the one hand, I want to protect myself, but at the same time, when your heart feels open, I think you just have to show up for it,” the “Deeper Well” singer explained. the outlet. “I’m still trying to figure out the balance of that.”
Following Musgraves’ divorce from Kelly, 35, in July 2020 after three years of marriage, the singer moved on with Schafer, 27, in August 2021.
“He didn’t know who I was, what I was into,” Musgraves recalled of the pair’s first meeting in a crowded restaurant in 2021. New York Times profile. ‘A handful of grown men come out, sweating to keep up on the sidewalk. It feels very predatory.”
Kacey Musgraves and Cole Schafer
Gotham/GC ImagesNearly two years later, Musgraves and Schafer called it quits.
“They disagreed about where they are in life and decided to end it,” a source said. We weekly in November 2023.
A month later, another source said Us that Schafer didn’t care for the “glitz and glamour” that came with dating Musgraves and that their “personalities ultimately weren’t exactly a match.”
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According to the insider, Schafer didn’t like “attending all these events as Kacey’s plus-one” and is “an extremely sensitive, soulful man who doesn’t share her ambitions.”
Four months after her split with Schafer, Musgraves announced her new album, Deeper Well, which will be released on March 15th.
“It is a collection of songs that are very dear to me. I hope it will find a home in your hearts too,” the “Rainbow” singer wrote via Instagram in February, while also announcing that she would be dropping the title track and music video that same day.
Musgraves later said that she drew inspiration for her new album from the energy in New York City’s Greenwich Village.
“I think it’s really ironic that in the middle of New York City I was able to tap into a more rootsy, folky, softer side,” she said. The cut. “Some of my more country stuff came out of there again.”