Everything You Need To Know About Zac Brown And Ex-Wife Kelly Yazdi’s Divorce Drama
on Jul 18, 2025
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 lawsuit over the poem, 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.
The drama continued 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.
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Zac Brown Finds New Love
Amid their legal battle, Zac Brown has found love. The country singer has started dating jewelry designer Kendra Scott.
According to PEOPLE, they were set up by a mutual friend.
In the same article, a source revealed that things are going well for the pair. “They were set up by a mutual friend and are totally in love. They are head over heels and have become inseparable.”
As of now, it appears that Yazdi has not commented on Brown’s new romance.
Court Date Set For Pending Lawsuits
The drama between the divorced couple continues as a court date has been set.
In a July 17th TikTok video posted by Yazdi, she said,
“On Monday (just a couple days ago) the court announced that it has set a jury trial date for September 15, 2025 at the US District Courthouse in Atlanta, Georgia. This is an important step toward closure and I’m looking forward to finally having my day in court.”
The court date is September 15, 2025, in Atlanta, Georgia.
Besides this, Yazdi revealed that the court decided that it would be an open proceeding.
“I’m grateful that we now have a jury trial set where the Judge has said he will not close the courtroom and that it will remain open to the public. I look forward to the opportunity to prove that what I learned during my personal relationship with Zac cannot be silenced and to finally put this behind me.”
Watch the full update below.
@kelly_yazdi Hi everyone it’s Kelly — I wanted to share an update on the lawsuit my ex-husband, Zac Brown from Zac Brown Band, filed against me. On Monday (just a couple days ago) the court announced that it has set a jury trial date for September 15, 2025 at the US District Courthouse in Atlanta, Georgia. This is an important step toward closure and I’m looking forward to finally having my day in court. For a bit of context: Zac has been dragging me through lawsuits for the last year and a half now. It started back in early 2024, when he tried to force me to sign a marital NDA during our divorce, which I refused. And a couple weeks later, he used our wedding video in his music video, replacing me with a look-a-like model who was engaging in inappropriate behavior. It was just…disgusting. Then in May 2024, he filed a lawsuit against me in regard to a poem I wrote, claiming it violated my employment agreement with his company, Zac Brown Collective (ZBC). He even tried to get a temporary restraining order to silence me, which ended up being denied in federal court. . Then, he sued me again, this time accusing me of “corporate espionage,” basically “Coke versus Pepsi” kind of stuff and asking for an injunction against me. Then After a very long and very expensive discovery process, in December 2024, Zac withdrew his motion for a preliminary injunction claim — and essentially admitted there was no evidence and no damages. Despite all of this, Zac has kept me tied up in expensive lawsuits, as a means to control and intimate me, even though our divorce was finalized in January (so just a few months ago). Why this guy won’t just leave me alone, I don’t know. This has been an incredibly difficult, expensive and emotional journey: one that I never asked for and one that I hope no one else ever has to go through. But I have to stand up for myself, and for anyone who has ever felt controlled or silenced by someone with more power and resources. At our last hearing on May 21st, the Judge stated that he is “not going to allow anybody to bully anybody,” and that is why he didn’t allow the temporary restraining order [about my poem] to be granted. That statement means a lot to me because it gives me hope that justice will ultimately prevail and that celebrities won’t get special treatment, especially in this court. I’m grateful that we now have a jury trial set where the Judge has said he will not close the courtroom and that it will remain open to the public. I look forward to the opportunity to prove that what I learned during my personal relationship with Zac cannot be silenced and to finally put this behind me. So thank you so much to everyone who has listened and supported me during this terrible process. Your kindness and encouragement mean the world to me, and mean more than I can articulate. I just want to say thank you. I’ll keep you updated on what happens as we move forward. Thank you for being there for me.
♬ original sound – kellyyazdi
