By now, we’ve all heard the rumors about Miranda Lambert and why Blake Shelton suddenly filed for divorce over the summer. Immediately following their out-of-nowhere divorce, Blake’s PR people did a number on Miranda, letting several media outlets know that Miranda was the one fooling around and that Blake had enough of it. To say it escalated quickly would be the understatement of the Summer of Splits. After a week or two, the rumors did die down. I always believed – and I still sort of believe – that Blake was no angel and that Miranda had enough dirt on him to get him to call off the smear campaign. Still… the rumors about Miranda persist. And now Star has an interesting piece about how there are still some whispers in Nashville about Miranda’s taste for married men:
Jaws dropped when fans spotted Miranda Lambert and Dierks Bentley riding together to the Music City Walk of Fame ceremony in Nashville on October 6. But it wasn’t the country stars’ fame that had the crowds whispering – it was their touchy-feely behavior! Holding hands and cuddling close in their golf cart, the pair looking more like a romantic couple than old pals – and married Dierks wasn’t wearing his wedding ring!
Now there are rumblings that Dierks’ marriage to Cassidy Black is on the rocks too. Could Miranda be to blame? Dierks and Miranda have been sharing boozy adventures for years. He even admitted to taking Miranda to a bar on the way to her 2011 wedding. But their bond seems to have intensified since she and Blake split.
“They talk nonstop these days. Since Miranda doesn’t have Blake anymore, she’s relying on Dierks for emotional support. She forgets he’s a married man and thinks it’s perfectly OK to cal or text anytime she wants.”
Cassidy, Derks’ wife of nearly a decade, has remained remarkably patient through her husband’s wild displays, but a friend says she’s nearing the end of her rope. “This buzz that Dierks and Miranda are hooking up is very upsetting for his wife. Cassidy has been with him long enough to know what he’s like, but watching his behavior with Miranda lately has really caused tension in their relationship.”
Miranda seems to have a thing for married men – during her relationship with Blake, she allegedly cheated with at least five guys, including MLB star Josh Beckett, country singer Jerrod Niemann. In 210, she reportedly tried to seduce married country star Eric Church, though he rejected her advances. And sources claim that shortly before she split from Blake, Miranda fell for a married man who worked for her.
[From Star Magazine, print edition]
At this point, there are so many rumors about Miranda and her attraction to married men that I sort of believe it. Blake was married too when he first got with Miranda. She was forgiven for that, mostly because Blake is popular and beloved and he has dimples. But it feels like Miranda only gets one of those. If she is this indiscreet and it comes out in the mainstream press outlets like People Magazine that she’s going after married men, her career is done. She really wouldn’t be forgiven. The public will forgive it one time if a lady bangs a married man. The public will not forgive it twice (or several times, which is what it’s starting to sound like).
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Her face bugs me.
She bugs me, period.
For one, I never gave this selfish pig a pass regarding Blake Shelton. Glad the karma train caught up with both of them. Two, I think she is HIGHLY overrated. Finally, she is no better than Shart Ann Rimes.
She may be a lovely person, but she has a certain look that suggests she is not trustworthy. Kind of like mean eyes.
Again, that is just my own ‘vibe’ I get from seeing her.
Is that guy’s name for real?
It’s plural right? That is what is throwing me off. His name is plural.
It’s a family last name that his parents gave him as a first name.
How do you pronounce it? Like Derks?
Yes — like Derks or Durks.
His wife is really pretty.
She’s gorgeous. Miranda? Not so gorgeous. Don’t Dierks and his wife have little ones? It’s one thing to chase a married man, another to bust up a family. (Both are wrong.)
He’s one of my favorite country singers,so i hope he’s not cheating on his beautiful wife.
The public will forgive anything these days.
A week later some other celebrity will be involved in a scandal and no one will care about Miranda and her lovers.
Buhhhh. Ueegh. Hello! I’m Dierks Bentley. My name is Dierks Bentley.
LOL!!!!!
Didn’t Lainey have some crazy blind about her that talked about all this stuff? Yeah, apparently she’s like unhinged.
Yeah she was calling his wife or somethng.
Her face is the strangest of shapes.
Yes, her face is strange, and she also has a strange habit of hooking up with MARRIED country stars. This reads just like her history with Blake Shelton.
Looks like a pie tin with point at one end.
😂😂
She gets the men how she loses the men by cheating. Hope the wife keys her car like in one of her pukey songs. Can you guess my opinion of Miranda?!
Lol She does have a lot of nerve singing about what she does and then living like that. And I think you’re thinking of Carrie Underwood’s song there.
The Botox and fillers have actually made her face better
Oh my, so I don’t even want to see how she was before.
Of course it’s not right that she goes after married men, but are the men really not in control that they can’t stop cheating on their wives with her? Can they just not help themselves? Why does she get all the blame? A woman can chase a man all she wants but if the man ain’t willing to play she doesn’t have a game.
The husbands are more to blame because they made a commitment. But women who cheat with with married men are breaking a basic sisterhood rule too.
Thank you. Married men have the ability to say, “Thanks, but no thanks. Not interested.”
BTW, Dierks has young kids; two girls, I think.
She is hated in Nashville and known to go after married men. This isn’t a secret.
It is a mystery to me, why a woman obviously very talented, and not hard on the eyes, seems to be so desperate for male attention, that she will latch onto almost any available or unavailable male. I think a psychiatrist would probably have an answer, but to me it just reeks of sadness, and immaturity.
I don’t get it either.
She and Rimes sound like two peas in a s–tty pod.
Not surprised she has that rep. Honestly she seems way insecure and in desperate need of validation.
I think she still can’t get over that Eric Church turned her down. I’m actually surprised Blake married her in the first place. So needy
I saw Miranda open for Dierks years ago, before she blew up really big. (She had a barely functioning awareness of Johnny Cash songs, so I wrote her off and do not feel I’ve missed out on anything.) Dierks was married by that point, but he hadn’t gotten quite so big, either, and they were playing a smaller club (about 500 people). There wasn’t really a backstage area, just their equipment stacked to make a little separate area for them to keep extra guitars, etc. You could clearly see it from the club floor, though, and they were all over each other back there. So I believe this.
Omg!
Going to see her tomorrow night.
This go after married men business is annoying to me. She is no longer with her husband and if they are married too, that is on them as well. I don’t believe that women are these evil temptresses. It takes two to tango.
I totally agree with this, but there are also women who like going after married men. It’s a power thing. I work with a woman who only dates married men. She gets off on the chase (she calls it the “hunt”) and she said she feels more powerful knowing she’s taking something from someone else, and she especially likes pursuing the guys who turn her down the first time. She likes “breaking” them. I know a few men who have resisted her attempts to get them to step out, but that is definitely what’s going on. She is actively trying to make this happen, knowing full well what the consequences could be for the family. She just doesn’t care (she’s a terrible person). The men who sleep with her have to accept responsibility for being weak and selfish, but there are women out there whose type is married men.
She sounds like a sociopath and is probably an anomaly rather than the general rule.
After my friend told me her horror stories of dealing with an ex wife and bratty ungrateful teenagers who sent her nasty texts for 8 years (she originally was the mistress) I simply cannot imagine going there honestly. Sounds like a whole bucket full of drama.
@Andrea
What’s really freaky is that even when you don’t do anything wrong, you STILL have to deal with the crazy ex. When I was younger–the way my Grandma D acted around my Grandma C (who was my grandpa’s ex), you would’ve thought that Grandma C was hooking up with my grandpa, while he was married to Grandma D, and NOT the other way around. My Grandma D and grandpa were hooking up in the back of his car, while my Grandma C was at home with the kids. She was VERY classy about the whole thing (even sent my Grandma D’s daughter presents at Christmas, because she didn’t think it was her fault about what her mother did)….and both of them (Grandma D and my aunt) talk shit about HER. And she didn’t do anything! To the point to where they act like damn fools around her.
@ Andrea
I don’t think she’s the general rule at all, but I also don’t think she’s alone in that way of thinking. Women take an unfair burden of blame in an affair, but you also have to not be an a-hole and let the married/committed ones go on by. I sometimes feel like the “*they’re* the ones who made the commitment” thing is used to absolve women of *any* responsibility in an affair. Like when kristen Stewart dallied with her married director, yes, he made vows and he chose to break them, but KStew knew he was married. She has to accept some share of responsibility for being a selfish twit. Although she did take too much “homewrecker heat,” too, because Rupert Sanders should have had the moral fiber to not cheat.
It’s just complicated. I don’t think it’s ever one or the other, except maybe in cases where the guy completely snows a woman and she legitimately doesn’t know he’s married.
Some women also like the feeling that a guy would risk so much being with them and make an effort to find the time to be together. They get off on that part too : (
I’ve seen men get off on it too. I have a male friend who only seems into women who have a boyfriend/are married. He seems to like the extra challenge, but sadly he always plays second fiddle. He gets really hung up them too, so it isn’t simply because he can have something casual with them either.
I’m sick of everyone involved in this scenario. Everyone just continue to put out good country music and leave your private part for your spouse to enjoy.
If Blake’s a cheater, I don’t buy that he would leave Miranda for that. Cheating just isn’t a deal-breaker for some people. I think it was something else entirely. Maybe she cheated with a married man, but I think it was more likely that she had an abortion or was doing cocaine to get thin. Their documents were sealed in a state that doesn’t seal documents unless there are special circumstances, one of them being the release of medical information. They don’t seal them for adultery.
Earlier in the week, Lainey had a post about Miranda, and she referenced termination. Not that it’s an indicator, but it sort of fits. And the post-filing reveal time was charged with emotion, so I think there was anger. But that’s enough back-seat theorizing for me ; )
I don’t understand any of these people. Who knew country music had so much more drama than pop music? Whut. The Taylor Swift-Katy Perry feud is laughable compared to this…
Miranda’s face/head are huge. Like a damn pumpkin.
Probably = she was before her divorce, so ….
It’s sad if Dierks leaves his wife and family for her, but it wouldn’t be the first time a ‘friendship’ for two singing stars turned to marriage within the past decade or so. Think Amy and Vince, and also Garth and Trisha.
And if memory serves me correctly, both couples indicated they were just friends for years, but time proved rumors and suspicions may have been quite true.
You know, after my nine-year marriage ended and I was 34 and single, I couldn’t get a dinner part invitation for years. Years. The only dinner parties I got invited to were work potlucks. My female “friends” would happily meet me for lunch or shopping or an art opening or dinner and a movie. I just wasn’t ever invited into their homes for dinner.
I didn’t get invited to dinner parties again until four and a half years later when I met my now second husband. All of a sudden I wasn’t some toxic evil husband-stealing threat (huh?) and I could be allowed to sit at a table with these people’s untrustworthy-yet-precious husbands again. I told them no thanks and made a new set of friends.
All this is a long way of saying that Miranda Lambert can take her cliched, insecure, husband-stealing self and go take a hike. She makes things toxic for the rest of us.