Maren Morris makes major announcement, four months after finalising divorce
Country star Maren Morris has revealed a huge personal update, just four months after finalising her divorce from Ryan Hurd.
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Maren Morris is out and proud.
The Middle singer, 34, publicly came out as bisexual in a post on social media in honour of Pride Month.
After a sold-out performance in Phoenix on Sunday, Morris rushed to social media to share the news, reports Page Six.
“Happy to be the B in LGBTQ+, happy pride,” she captioned a series of images from her “RSVP Redux” tour shared on Instagram.
Some of the snaps shared with her 3.9 million followers on the platform showed the Grammy winner proudly waving a Pride flag.
In January, Morris finalised her divorce from Ryan Hurd after five years of marriage.
In court documents obtained by Page Six, the Bones singer filed for the dissolution of her marriage on October 2, 2023. She cited “irreconcilable differences” for the split.
A judge has upheld a property settlement agreement and a prenuptial agreement the exes had in place.
Hurd is expected to pay Morris $2,100 in monthly child support for their son, though the couple will share custody of the 4-year-old.
The split appeared to have come abruptly as Morris listed that the date of their separation is the same as the date she filed.
Morris and Hurd began dating in 2015 after being friends for several years. They got engaged in 2017 and tied the knot less than a year later in 2018.
The musicians welcomed their first and only child together, Hayes, in March 2020.
Less than two weeks before filing for divorce from Hurd, Morris announced that she was quitting country music due to how “toxic” the industry had gotten.
The singer said she felt “rightfully cynical” about what the genre has become and could no longer “participate in the really toxic arms” of country music in Nashville.
“I love living in Nashville, I have my family,” she said on the New York Times’ Popcast podcast. “There’s a reason why people come there from L.A. and New York to write with us. It’s because we have amazing songwriters there. That’s not gonna change.”
“We have amazing songwriters there, so that’s not going to change,” she went on.
“I couldn’t do this circus anymore — feeling like l have to absorb and explain people’s bad behaviours and laugh it off. I just couldn’t do that after 2020 particularly. I’ve changed. A lot of things changed about me that year.”
This article originally appeared in Page Six and was reproduced with permission.
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