On his latest album Lucky Old Sun, Kenny Chesney writes about the end of his four-month marriage to Renee Zellweger.
He tells Newsweek recovering from the split was "was horrible. It took a while. Years. It's been since 2005.
"I was probably as emotionally and mentally exhausted as I'd ever been," he goes on. "And that was due to a lot of things -- having the foot on the gas pedal constantly, and my breakup with Renee Zellweger."
So, he says, "I got in a plane and went down to the Virgin Islands. I was completely by myself.
"I didn't want to be around anybody," Chesney continues. "So the next thing you know, it's me and a pen, and I sat down and wrote a lot of lines of this song, 'Nowhere to Go, Nowhere to Be.'"
Asked if he was nervous writing about the Zellweger split, he tells Newsweek, "It's the truth. It's my life.
"I've been in a lot of states of mind in the last three years," he says. "In that way, it's a pretty honest record. I've let myself be more emotionally vulnerable in some of the lyrics. I think that was good therapy."
He says he has "no idea" what the actress will think. "I don't know. It's unpredictable."
Chesney tells Newsweek they still talk "every now and then. I don't want to say this whole record is about her."
Is he still heartbroken?
"Not at all," says the singer, who adds that he is dating again. "I already wrote those songs. I'm on to something else." via
