You’ve got to give props to Miranda Lambert for getting up at the 2024 ACM Awards and torching her ex-husband, Blake Shelton, with her new track “Wranglers.” Especially while he was sitting next to Gwen Stefani, whom he reportedly cheated on her with. Burn.
Lambert and Shelton both claimed the other had cheated during their relationship. In fact, an inside source told TMZ that Lambert was adamant it was Shelton’s “cozy” friendship with Stefani while filming “The Voice” that ended their four-year marriage. “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned,” she sings in her new song. “When the knock down drag out’s over / And Lord knows she took one too many / Well, her blue jean eyes are too tired to cry / And he won’t know ’til she’s gone already / If he ever loved her, he never let it show.”
Lambert clearly felt she had some unfinished business with Shelton — or perhaps “Wranglers” was her way of finishing it. Either way, despite him going on to marry Stefani, Lambert also got her happily ever after. She married former NYC cop Brendan McLaughlin in 2019. Lambert shared their one rule of marriage in an interview with People in May 2024: “It’s communication. We just talk it out, whatever it is, we talk about everything,” she said. “And I think communication is super important, especially because women, we expect men to know what we’re thinking and they don’t. We got to tell them.” Well, she certainly told Shelton — albeit a tad too late.
