Country music's Miranda Lambert hasn't always been a winner when it comes to love.
After her 2015 divorce from Blake Shelton and a pair of failed romances, her secret
wedding to NYPD officer Brendan McLoughlin shocked fans in 2019.
Here are some of the strangest things about Miranda Lambert's new marriage.
Fans were pretty flabbergasted when Radar Online reported that Lambert and McLoughlin
got hitched just two months after they met.
As for the reason why they moved so fast, an insider claimed,
"Miranda suspected that Blake [Shelton] and his love, Gwen Stefani, are close to tying
the knot.
And [she] wanted to upstage her ex."
In response to the news that Lambert and McLoughlin had tied the knot, the country singer's ex-husband
was reportedly rather cold about the entire situation.
A source cited by People said,
"He put Miranda in his rear view mirror long ago.
Miranda brings nothing positive to his life."
As is all too often the case in Tinseltown, it wasn't long before the rumor mill exploded
with allegations of marital woes between Lambert and McLoughlin.
A snitch close to the situation reached out to Radar Online in May 2019 and claimed that
the artist and her new hubby were living, quote, "completely different lives, almost
a thousand miles apart."
With Lambert based in Nashville and McLoughlin working as a police officer in the Big Apple,
they were allegedly involved in a long-distance marriage.
The miles between them reportedly made things difficult for the couple to expand their family,
as well.
The insider claimed,
"She wants a baby before it's too late.
But Brendan can barely see her a couple of days a month."
Marrying McLoughlin didn't just make Lambert a bride, she also became a stepmom.
But the real shocker was when Radar Online reportedly discovered a since-deleted Instagram
post from November 2018, which featured new dad McLoughlin holding his newborn son.
McLoughlin's baby boy was allegedly born a mere three days after he met Lambert.
Radar Online reports that McLoughlin was once engaged to a woman named Jackie Bruno, according
to Jackie's mom, Carol.
Carol claimed that Jackie found out that McLoughlin was cheating on her and that he had gotten
his side chick pregnant in 2018.
Yikes!
According to Carol, McLoughlin was living a "secret life for several months."
She added,
"He definitely was very phony and she had no idea.
He hid it well, he hid it very well."
This timeline means he went from having a fiancée to allegedly impregnating another
woman to courting one of country music's biggest stars all in the blink of an eye.
Rumors regarding their supposed marital strife continued in the months after Lambert and
McLoughlin became husband and wife.
Amid the bad press was Star magazine's claim that Lambert had plans to divorce McLoughlin,
quote, "after just 122 days of marriage."
An anonymous source told the gossip rag that the country music songstress was reportedly
moving out of their shared $2 million apartment in New York City.
The insider added that Lambert allegedly told friends that marrying the NYPD police officer
was "the biggest mistake of her life."
The media outlet's source also highlighted the long-distance marriage rumor, saying that
it was causing way too many issues for the newlyweds.
All that said, a spokesperson for Lambert told Gossip Cop that Star's article was "completely
made-up," before adding,
"Not one iota is true.
They are happy and together!"
"I'm a Scorpio so my moods change with the weather, but I feel like overall I'm really
in a great place."
McLoughlin once worked patrol duty at the NYPD and was given the task of escorting numerous
big-name celebrities around Manhattan, according to the New York Post.
However, with his fellow cops unwilling to deal with his new-found celebrity status,
a source told the media outlet that he'd been taken off patrol duty and relegated to working
a desk job in February 2019.
And now, it sounds like McLoughlin is hanging up his uniform.
According to People, he took a leave of absence from the force in July 2019.
His decision came just months before Lambert kicked off her Roadside Bars & Pink Guitars
Tour, and Hollywood Life confirmed suspicions that McLoughlin took the leave of absence
so he could go on tour with her and act as her bodyguard on the road.
McLoughlin is expected to return to the NYPD one day, but the fact that he put his job
on the back burner doesn't help those rumors that he's using Lambert to kickstart his quest
to become a celeb.
An insider told InTouch Weekly in June 2019,
"Brendan loves all the attention.
He's had a desire to be famous since high school."
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