Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert Look Back on Their Divorce, 10 Years Later

It’s been a decade since Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert announced the end of their four-year marriage, and both are now sharing what the aftermath really felt like. Shelton has kept it light with jokes about the swift Oklahoma divorce and his“divorce diet,”but he’s also been candid about how Gwen Stefani helped him through his lowest point. Lambert took a more reflective route, telling Cosmopolitan that the pair gave the marriage“our best college try.”

The creative fallout turned out to be massive. Lambert says she wrote roughly 75 songs in about a year after moving back to Nashville, channeling the public scrutiny into her songwriting. She also shared a line that stuck with fans:“I won’t take pain for granted anymore.”That’s a lot of vulnerability for someone who went through it all on a national stage.

Both stars have since remarried, Shelton to Stefani and Lambert to Brendan McLaughlin, and neither seems interested in rehashing old wounds. The story is less about the split now and more about what comes after heartbreak. Which of Lambert’s post-divorce songs do you think captures the feeling best? Let us know in the comments.