Everything You Need To Know About Zac Brown And Ex-Wife Kelly Yazdi’s Divorce Drama
on Sep 10, 2024
From Love to Legal Battles: Zac Brown and Kelly Yazdi’s Divorce Explained
The couple consists of “Chicken Fried” singer Zac Brown and Kelly Yazdi, who is best known as a model and actress. It is unclear how the couple met or the length of their courtship, as they kept most of their dating life private.
It is known that Kelly Yazdi worked for The Zac Brown Band prior to and during their relationship.
The couple tied the knot in Georgia in August 2023 but quickly divorced four months later.
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How Did It Get So Messy?
Initially, the couple wanted to keep their divorce civil; Brown told Us Weekly in a statement:
“After much deliberation, I took the steps necessary to enforce an agreement between us to maintain personal and business affairs in confidence and to protect my family from online harassment and speculation. My only hope is for us to keep private matters private and to move forward with the mutual respect we had agreed to show one another when we parted ways.”
So, how did it get so messy? The couple’s desire to keep their divorce civil has gone out the window, as multiple lawsuits are currently pending.
It started with a poem.
Yazdi posted the poem in question titled “The Rebirth” on her Instagram. Read the poem here:
“The Rebirth”
“the rebirth
She is beginning again…
Her sunshine breaking through the passing storm.
Choosing to walk in grace and faith.
Knowing that all is well and the truth will surface.
The wildflower that willingly moved from her home in the name of love, not realizing the hands she trusted would plant her in a pot.
The wild horse who once roamed free but chose to trust her partner, only to realize along their journey that his intention was to bridle her spirit.
She was the butterfly caught in a net disguised as love; wings torn and abandoned in the darkest and coldest winter of her life… but she escaped from his golden handcuffs and rediscovered her wings – her freedom.
Her love was always unconditional.
She thought his was too…
But overtime it became apparent that he only knew conditional love; his unhealed trauma expressing itself thru his need to tame.
Don’t model anymore.
Take this picture off your Instagram.
Don’t wear that in the house.
Don’t post that bikini picture.
Don’t post anymore fitness videos.
Yes I said you could post that, but now I’m saying take it down.
I don’t want other men looking at what is mine.
I want to protect you, your body is sacred to me, can’t you see this is because I love you.
I don’t want to be with the kind of woman who has to show off her body for attention.
I will f*cking leave you.
Projections. Gaslighting. Threatening. Stonewalling.
Those are the ingredients of narcissistic abuse.
That “love” is conditional. “Love” disguised as compromise when in reality, it was control.
It nearly destroyed her… his betrayal forced her down a road through hell and brutal heartbreak, and the terrifying reality of narcissistic abuse… the scary truth that patiently waited to unmask itself only after vows were made.
But she stood in her faith through the storm.
Remembering who she was before all of this.
Remembering her sunshine was still there, ready to come back and fill her existence with the light she knew was always with her.
Butterflies don’t belong in nets.
Butterflies will never belong in nets.
This is her rebirth; her renaissance.
A true story that will one day help many others.”
Brown filed a lawsuit, claiming that the poem and another on her page violated “confidential information” from her time working at the Zac Brown Collective, Inc.
She responded to the claims on her Instagram by saying:
“I intend to respond swiftly and robustly to his meritless complaint that publication of two poems on my personal social media account divulged any “confidential information” about his business, much less authorizes a court to enjoin me from speaking about matters in my personal life that have nothing to do with my brief former work for the Zac Brown Collective, Inc.”
Yazdi has not removed her poems as Brown has requested. She responded to the lawsuit on her personal website and Instagram; see her post here:
It Did Not End There
After the poem lawsuit, Zac Brown released a music video for his song “Beautiful Drug (ft. Avicii)- Remix” Yazdi claims that Brown used their wedding footage and a look-alike to defame her.
She then filed a lawsuit against Brown, who denied the allegations and is contesting the lawsuit.
The look-alike footage was allegedly filmed in 2018, making it impossible for it to have been intentionally about Yazdi. However, in addition to the look-alike footage, she claims they used their wedding video.
To prove her point, she posted a YouTube video comparing the two videos. Watch the video below.
What Now?
The drama continues with a video posted on Yazdi’s Instagram on September 6th that details their pending lawsuit in further detail. The model ended her statement with the line, “The truth is in the evidence.”
Watch the video below.
