Kelsea Ballerini Says She Felt Used After Morgan Evans’ Breakup Song ‘Over for You’

During the latest episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast, Kelsea Ballerini discussed her ex-husband Morgan Evans’ breakup song, “Over for You,” saying she wasn’t moved by it. She went on to open up about the moment Evans released the track, questioning his timing.

“If I’m being honest, I felt like that was really opportunistic for him to put that out when he did when we were still going through the legalities of getting divorced,” Ballerini told Alex Cooper. “I felt really used in that moment. And again, his healing journey is his healing journey, I respect that. But publicly exploiting it feels a little nasty to me, before it’s final.”

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Evans released the song back in October, two months after they filed for divorce. In the song, Evans sings that he was blindsided by Ballerini’s action, with lyrics that apparently angered the country singer.

“So angry, so angry,” she said of the song. “I had a pretty good grasp on my grieving journey until that song came out and I was livid. I think that maybe there’s a world that he was blindsided. I did not blindside him. Two things can be true at once, and I think like if he truly was blindsided, then where was he?”

But, Ballerini insists she has moved on from the situation and ist no longer fazed by the song. “Now we’re like months past it,” she stated. “We’re moving on and I’ve taken the time to, like, actually sit in my feelings and go through that grieving process and take ownership of what I brought to the table too.”

Just last week the singer released a six-song EP and short film, Rolling Up The Welcome Mat, which tells her side of the story. She went on to say that she wished she would have released it in August when she had pulled the plug on their marriage.

“I wish I would have had it in August,” she noted. “I wish in August when I would have been like, ‘I’m blowing up my life, I’m doing it.’ That someone would have had those six songs that I could have listened to, to like go through the intricacies of the emotions of everything you think your life is going to look like, it’s not.” 

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The new ep details the singer’s perspective on the divorce, including her sleeping on the couch and going out of her way to go on flights to see Evans, and pulling herself together following a fight ahead of the CMT Awards.

“I was just putting examples in there,” she said. “We were in therapy for years. Like remember that time that I slept on the couch before the CMA Awards and then we, like, walked the carpet with bags under our eyes ’cause we had been fighting? I was just like again, if that is your narrative, if that’s true to you, where were you?”

Before the interview, Evans took to social media to react to the teaser of the podcast episode and the EP. “It’s really sad for me to see this person, who I spent so much of my life with, and loved with all my heart, saying things that aren’t reality and that leave out what really happened,” Evans stated. “She knows I’m not the type of guy to speak on those things publicly. If this is what she needs to heal, I hope it helps.”

“All I ask is that if you’re on my pages, please don’t be mean. Don’t be mean to Kelsea, don’t be mean to each other. Life’s too short,” he continued. The couple officially tired the knot back in 2017 after having a “whirlwind romance.”

“Who you marry is not who you divorce. As he’s putting out a song about being blindsided, he’s taking half the house that he didn’t pay for. Hurt people, hurt people,” she stated. “I totally get that. And I have grace, I really do, because I do know that he was hurt and is hurt, but how was I married to this person for so long and I had no idea that that bit of character was tucked within that human being? That’s what’s hard for me.”

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