It didn't take Blake Shelton long to tweet some shade towards his ex-wife Miranda Lambert;
Shelton made an online remark about karma just a single day after Us Weekly broke the
news that Lambert was dating Evan Felker in 2018.
As a quick explainer, Felker is a member of Turnpike Troubadours, Lambert's opening act
at the time. They allegedly started spending a lot more time together while on the road...
and while Lambert was already in a relationship with Anderson East. Lambert started dating
East in 2015, a few months after splitting from Shelton. While the timeline of Lambert
and Felker's relationship is a little unclear, there was speculation at the time that she
and East were on the rocks, since they'd stopped posting about each other.
To make matters even more complicated, Felker was married to Staci Nelson Felker. A source
claimed that Staci was devastated by the Us Weekly report and had no choice but to divorce
her husband. In May 2018, In Touch reported Lambert posted on Instagram, saying:
"PSA: If Staci Felker can make it through this week, so can you."
Lambert announced she was happily single to The Tennessean in August 2018. However, that
all changed in November 2018 when she met Brendan McLoughlin. She revealed they got
married in a February 2019 Instagram post.
They've seemed happy ever since, but there's a lot of tea to spill when it comes to Lambert's
supposed cheating scandals.
"I think you know what the right decision is. Y'know what I mean?"
Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert met in 2005 at CMT's 100 Greatest Duets Concert. Shelton
was married to his first wife, Kaynette Williams. Lambert acknowledged how problematic it was
during a 2011 Dateline interview with Hoda Kotb, and that she should have known better.
During a 2011 episode of Behind the Music, Shelton talked about meeting Lambert, and said,
"I've never had that kind of experience with anybody."
They both knew it was wrong, but also admitted to basically falling in love with each other
right there on stage. If rumors are to be believed, however, there was more cheating to come.
Back in March 2015, Radar Online reported Miranda Lambert and country singer Chris Young
were hanging out together and acting like a couple at a Nashville bar. Young was Lambert's
opening act during her tour in 2012.
In July 2015, Young addressed the affair rumors by releasing a statement to Twitter, saying,
"I don't normally address gossip but in this case I will. My name has been mentioned as
a contributing factor in Blake and Miranda's divorce. That is totally FALSE. They are both
my friends and I would not betray that friendship. Just wanted to clear that up."
Young also discussed the cheating claims during an August 2015 interview with Entertainment
Tonight. He said that he hated being inserted into an uncomfortable situation between two
people he considered his friends, and he'd been in touch with them throughout. He even
managed to maintain his friendships with both Lambert and Shelton.
Although Blake Shelton was married when he met Miranda Lambert, it's unclear when Shelton
and Lambert's romance actually started. However, the love triangle perpetuated in the media
might've actually been a square, or at least that's what Lambert's ex-fiancé Jeff Allen
McManus claims.
In April 2018, Us Weekly reported McManus posted - and deleted - a response to Shelton's
karma tweet. McManus said:
"You know, i've always given you the benefit of the doubt and chalked it up to just being
human, But you must be one arrogant SOB to pop off something like this, when I know damn
good and well you were cheating on your wife and Miranda was cheating on me when you two
started up."
In another deleted tweet, McManus said he'd stayed quiet about this fact for years, but
seeing Shelton acting smug just set him off.
McManus later spoke to Radar Online about Lambert and Shelton's alleged affair and Shelton's
Twitter shade. He said:
"I'd opened shows for him and knew people around town that knew him and I'd just never
said anything...I'm sure Miranda did [Blake] dirty just like she did me, but he wasn't
thinking about me when he was cheating with her, so I don't know why he thinks it's karma."
Lambert prefers to keep her love life private, but that won't stop people from speculating.
Especially her exes.
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