Jake Owen gets emotional about marriage split onstage at festival
Country star Jake Owen continued making his marriage split public over the weekend (08-09Aug15) as he opened up to fans at the WE Fest in Minnesota.
Just a day after taking to Twitter.com to confirm reports suggesting he and his wife Lacey Buchanan were heading for divorce, he gave fans an update during an emotional onstage moment.
Owen told the audience, "A lot of people maybe shy away from it,
but I think I'm going to do some weird stuff... My wife and I are
getting a divorce, and this is probably the hardest s**t I've ever
done in my life, to walk on stage every night, and try to pretend
that everything's awesome, when it really isn't awesome."
He then performed a rendition of Garth Brooks' The Dance, breaking
off mid-song to tell the crowd, "Thanks to people like you guys for
singing along, you have no idea how much you lift me up every
single night, and I love my wife more than anything in the world,
and I love my little baby girl Pearl more than anything in the
world.
"If it wasn't for both of them, I wouldn't even be here right now
to be a happy man. That's a dance I'm glad I got to dance."
Owen has been candid about the end of his three-year marriage from
the beginning, telling fans in June (15) that he and his wife were
having communication problems and were talking about divorce.
Ironically, Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert, who also recently
announced their marriage was over, were also part of the WE Fest
bill.