Watching your daughter experience heartbreak is never easy — andKelsea Ballerini’s mom Carla Denham can attest to that.
“As she was sending me those songs when she would write them… I would just bawl,” Denham told the host. “The songs were hard enough to listen to but I also know that it’s cathartic for her. That’s her way of processing hurt and pain… it’s to go write it — then it’s out of her.”
In the short film, Ballerini, 29, wore her heart on sleeve and gave fans an inside look at her divorce fromMorgan Evans.
“I watched that film and the pain on her face… I’ve seen that pain. It’s real pain,” Denham said.
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“I was thinking, ‘God, how are you gonna do that?’ I couldn’t do that — there’s no way,” she said. “If she had hired an actress to do that, it would’ve hurt for me to watch it, but to watch her acting out what she really felt and experienced was just… it’s that blend between I’m in total awe, and I just wanted to take her and put her in a plastic bubble and let’s just go away somewhere away from the world.”
She added, “That was a hard day for her.”
The full episode ofGot It from My Momma with Denham is availablehere.
Ballerini releasedRolling Up the Welcome Maton Feb. 14 and described it as the next chapter of her latest album, 2022’sSUBJECT TO CHANGE.
She then noted that her musical origins stemmed from writing therapeutically through dark moments. “The only way I’ve been able to handle my life since I was 12 was to write about it. Ironically, I started writing music because my parents got divorced; that was my therapy,” continued Ballerini’s statement.
“These are six songs I wish I had last year. It’s about the complexities of the feelings you go through during a massive shift at a young age,” she said of the project. “Rolling Up the Welcome Matwas how I processed everything. It’s the way I got my feelings out of my body and heart and put them to music — which is the purest way I could’ve handled it.”
Ballerinifiled for divorcefrom Evans in August after nearly five years of marriage, and their split wasfinalized in November. Since then, Grammy-nominee has beenlinked toOuter BanksstarChase Stokes.
source: people.com
