Before Blake Shelton found the love of his life in Gwen Stefani , he was famously married to fellow country singer Miranda Lambert. At the time, Shelton did everything he could to prove his loyalty to his ex-wife. How Blake Shelton tried to earn Miranda Lambert’s trust Shelton tried offering Lambert full transparency when it came to their relationship.
The two first met when they performed a duet together on stage in 2005. Both recalled feeling instant chemistry at the time. “I’ve never had that kind of experience with anybody,” Shelton once said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly .
However, Shelton was married to Kaynette Williams back then, which made his immediate feelings toward Lambert harder to process. “I was a married guy, you know? Standing up there and singing with somebody and going, ‘Man, this shouldn’t be happening.’ Looking back on that, I was falling in love with her, right there on stage,” Shelton said.
Likewise, Lambert was well aware of Shelton’s marital status , which complicated her feelings toward him. “I knew he was married,” Lambert said. “I had seen their wedding picture in Country Weekly — I knew better, like, this is off limits.
My parents are private investigators for God’s sake. I’ve seen this my whole life — affairs. Of all people to know better, I know better than this.
” But Williams and Shelton would divorce in 2006, making way for the “God’s Country” singer’s relationship with Lambert to bloom..
