It's in the news again. And I'm still bedeviled by this unquenchable need to know. I'm talking about the breakup of country music singer Kenny Chesney and actress Renee Zellwegger.
Its been several years. The hope was I had left my obsession behind. The late nights on my computer spent toiling. Toiling, sweating, and searching. Searching night after night, month after month, for any shred, any tiny morsel of information on the cause of their separation.
I could have told you their wedding photos didn't bode well. The happy couple seemed strangely awkward and ill at ease. As if the marriage were a sham, or they had serious misgivings.
Let's review, because memories fade: Renee Zellweger met Kenny Chesney in January 2005. After only a few months of dating, they got married. A mere four months into the marriage, Zellweger cited "fraud" and filed for an annullment.
My inability to know what happened, and the deafening silence surrounding the reasons for their breakup, has mightily tormented me for the last 3 years.
I've heard he's extremely obsessive about his laundry. I've heard the rumors he's gay, and he may well be, but I'm sure she had heard them, too.
Finally, in July 2008, I read a story implying that Chesney's cheating on Zellweger with a groupie was the "reason" for the dissolution of their marriage. The gender of the groupie was not specified.
Now, today's Huffington Post reports Chesney has a new album release ("Lucky Old Sun"); written post-breakup. Apparently the divorce provided Chesney with plenty of songwriting fodder.
Folks, I know this is none of my business, but Chesney is more of an enigma than Michael Stipe.
The fact that there isn't some simplistic reason, true or false, trumpeted by their publicists, blindly parroted by the press, is beyond maddening. I'm in need of some help here.
What in the hell happened?
