Zac Brown’s divorce is a mess, and things are getting worse.
The country singer and now-estranged wife Kelly Yazdi announced in December 2023 that they were separating after just four months of marriage.
Now, it sounds like their divorce will last longer than their marriage, as Zach has filed a restraining order against his ex, who poured cold water on their short-lived marriage.
She had to say it was shocking
Let’s take a closer look.
how it all started
Like most celebrity romances, Zach and Kylie began dating in secret.
In fact, they have kept a low profile and no one is sure when they started dating.
That’s why people were a little shocked when Zach proposed to Kelly during a trip to Hawaii in 2022.
They were engaged for a year before getting married in a private ceremony in Georgia in August 2023.
But this marriage is destined to never see the New Year. By December, the pair split — news that shocked Zac’s fans and apparently his bride.
Zach Brown’s Divorce: What Happened?
“We are going through the divorce process. We still respect each other,” the pair shared in a statement. TMZ December 29, 2023.
This “mutual respect” means Zach and Kelly aren’t eager to share specific reasons why their marriage failed. The joint statement only ensures that the two parties broke up amicably.
“We wish each other the best and will always cherish our time together. We simply ask for privacy during this time as we deal with this personal matter.
They had privacy—until they didn’t. If you ask Zach, Kelly took the lead in making their divorce contentious when it didn’t have to be.
If you ask Kelly, you’ll get a completely different story.
Zach Brown files lawsuit and restrictions during divorce
On May 17, 2024, Zach filed a lawsuit against his estranged wife, asking her to delete the Instagram posts.
It felt like a strange move at the time, since Kelly had just posted a sentimental poem.
However, according to the Zac Brown frontman, her post allegedly violated the nondisclosure agreement she signed during their relationship.
To make matters worse, in court documents obtained by NBC News, Zucker sought an emergency temporary restraining order to force her to delete her social media posts.
He ultimately lost the case, giving Kelly the opportunity to share her story on Instagram.
And it didn’t leave a good impression on Zach either.
Shortly after taking off the proverbial muzzle, Kylie began sharing her truth on Instagram
From what she wrote, the issues complicating the road to a quick divorce initially seemed to have to do with Zac Brown’s band “business.”
She posted a lengthy message on social media in response to Zucker’s lawsuit, writing:
“No one — not even Zac Brown with his money, power, celebrity, and lawyers — can suppress my right to express myself freely through art or, although I have refused to do so publicly to date, to talk about our situation. .
She posted this via Instagram on May 20, 2024, and went on to write:
“I intend to respond swiftly and forcefully to his baseless complaints. [the] Two poems posted on my personal social media accounts reveal any “confidential information” about his business, not to mention authorizing a court to ban me from talking about matters in my personal life that have nothing to do with my previous work for Zac Brown Collective Limited Company”
This is where things take a turn.
Kelly Yazdi defends her reputation from Zac Brown’s divorce accusations
On August 8, 2024, Kelly returned to her Instagram and posted a long video explaining why people hadn’t heard from her in a while.
“You may know that Zach and I are getting divorced, which has been a very traumatic experience for me,” she began, preparing to tell the entire story behind their divorce in detail for the first time.
She explained that after “years of happily together,” they actually got married in August 2023, but then held a “private wedding” in Nashville in November.
Then, the bombshell.
“Nine days after our wedding, Zach unexpectedly told me via Zoom that he wanted a divorce.”
According to Kelly, as soon as he filed for divorce, he asked her to sign a nondisclosure agreement that “forbids me from talking about my life or my relationship with Zach for the rest of my life.”
She refused, and a few weeks later she was allegedly fired from my position as executive vice president of his company.
But that’s just the beginning of Kelly’s tumultuous story.
Zac Brown and the “Beautiful Drug” Music Video
If all that wasn’t bad enough, Kylie may have made her most serious accusation yet against her ex.
“At that time, he used a video of our wedding party without my consent, altered it for commercial gain and disparaged my integrity,” Kelly claimed, referring to “The Beauty Featuring Avicii Remix Drugs” video.
“The music video included footage of our private wedding party in Nashville on November 18, 2023, but in the video I was replaced by a look-alike model who was portrayed as a reckless, irresponsible person. , drugs, alcohol and charming Kelly said this is very dangerous behavior,
“By not judging some people’s struggles and choices, the image I was portraying wouldn’t be me, and the video portrayed me in a completely wrong light.”
Needless to say, the alleged choice to use this wedding footage (which Zac and his team deny) is why Kelly continues to speak so passionately about their divorce.
“I never wanted my divorce to be public,” Kelly admits. “I know there’s a lot of interest in celebrity relationships, and that’s just part of being married to a celebrity. I got it when Zach and I were married, but the end of a relationship, especially when it’s a normal person with a big platform and a It’s hard enough without telling the truth when there’s a huge power disparity between celebrities with huge resources.
Zack has yet to speak specifically about Kelly’s new claims.
