Jason Isbell, Amanda Shires. Kevin Winter/Getty Illustrations or photos
Jason Isbell is making it clear he did not cheat on estranged spouse Amanda Shires.
“I just cannot believe that I have to have to say this, but – my supervisor, enterprise supervisor, tour supervisor, tour assistant and equally publicists are all women of all ages,” Isbell, 45, wrote through an Instagram statement on Wednesday, April 3. “I’m extremely grateful for every of them. None of us have ever experienced any type of intimate romance in any way.”
The Americana singer questioned his followers to not “make up misogynistic nonsense stories” about his coworkers and share them on line like it’s a simple fact.
“It’s really hard sufficient by now for any individual who is not a straight white person in our small business,” he ongoing. “And now there are individuals calling them and accusing them of ‘breaking up a family members.’ Cease it.”
The Los Angeles Times reported that Isbell filed for divorce from Shires, who is a singer-songwriter and violinist, in December 2023 following a decade of marriage. The exes wed in 2013 and share daughter Mercy, 8. The duo also from time to time collaborated on quite a few audio projects.
Ahead of their split, Isbell and Shires, 42, obtained candid about how the ups and downs in their marriage impressed their songwriting approach for their 2020 album Reunions.
“At a person place, I stated, ‘It’d be less complicated if somebody had cheated,’” Isbell informed the New York Instances in Might 2020. “Then we could say, ‘You did this,’ or ‘I did this,’ and ‘Somebody requirements to be authentic sorry.’ But it was additional like, ‘We really do not know each individual other suitable now. We’re not capable to talk the similar language.’”
Shires pointed out that Isbell “was impossible” to work with during the recording system, introducing, “It was like he required support but didn’t want aid.”
Two months right after submitting for divorce, Isbell opened up about how he was faring adhering to the break up.
“I think I can nonetheless deal with to tell individuals who I am and what the truth is from my standpoint. It’s 1 of all those factors wherever not every little thing that finishes was a failure, you know?” he explained in the course of a February visual appearance on the “Broken Records” podcast. “I feel we did a good deal of seriously lovely items alongside one another and I have really fond reminiscences of all of that, and I really do not regret any of it, even the challenging stuff.”
Isbell discussed that coming to conditions with the split was similar to his encounter with his sobriety, which he attained next an intervention in 2012.
“It’s like when I acquired into restoration, I wound up immediately after a handful of a long time looking back again and thinking ‘I do not regret even the worst parts of that’ mainly because it all goes into making me who I am,” he confessed. “And the time will occur when the wounds are not even now new, the time will arrive when I’m equipped to take all this and set it into my perform in a way that is straightforward and genuine, but would make sense for me.”
