The Miranda Lambert Cheating Scandals Explained

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 this during a 2011 Dateline interview with Hoda Kotb when she confessed, "I knew he was married," recalling, "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."

During a 2011 episode of Behind the Music, Shelton talked about meeting Lambert, declaring (per Entertainment Weekly), "I've never had that kind of experience with anybody." The Voice judge remarked, "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." Lambert claimed, "It was just like this draw to each other. It was just sort of this inevitable chemistry."

Once again, the timeline is confusing, with Lambert joking that "it's been three long years already" during a 2008 CMT News interview, which would mean their relationship started up in 2005 — not 2006 when Shelton and Williams filed for divorce. Ironically, Shelton fueled rumors that Lambert cheated on him when he released the 2016 song "She's Got a Way With Words," where he sang about a "lying" and "cheating" ex.

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