A long time 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 saved involved with one another through the years, and we each know the identical individuals, so it was similar to good pals getting again collectively having dinner in January,” she defined on Watch What Occurs Stay With Andy Cohen in November 2020. “After which we began texting and speaking on the phone, attending to know one another higher throughout 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 concept. I didn’t need it in any form, type or vogue,” the nation music legend informed CMT’s Cody Alan in 2016. ”So it was actually exhausting to make the adjustment, when somebody’s not completely happy. I simply need everyone to be completely happy of their lives, as a result of our lives are too brief to be depressing.”
She added on the time: ”The factor that obtained me by means of this alteration in life, is primary, God. I prayed day by day to assist me have the energy to maneuver one foot in entrance of the opposite, and proceed on with what I’m speculated to be doing … after which with my crew … and my pals, my household, my girlfriends.”
Regardless of the divorce, McEntire stayed near the Blackstock household, together with stepson Brandon Blackstock and Kelly Clarkson, who introduced their break up in June 2020 after almost seven years of marriage. (The previous couple share daughter River and son Remington.)
“We’re household,” McEntire informed Us Weekly in 2019 earlier than Clarkson and Brandon’s break up. “She married my oldest son, Brandon, however we’re additionally good pals, in order that goes a great distance — when you’ll be able to have a great pal as part of your loved ones.”
Extra not too long ago, after the American Idol alum’s divorce obtained messy, she informed Additional: “I really like them each. … I’m pulling for each of them. I hope they’re completely happy and wholesome and pull by means of this. I pray everybody provides them the encouragement they will as a result of they want it proper now, each of them do. I really like the each of them with all my coronary heart.”
The Reba alum, in the meantime, made issues crimson carpet official with Linn throughout fall 2020 and the pair have been exhibiting off their love ever since.
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