Morgan Evans Says He Went Through 'All the Stages of Grief' While Dealing with Online 'Vitriol' amid Kelsea Ballerini Divorce

Rachel DeSantisTue, March 3, 2026 at 9:20 PM UTC

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Morgan Evans on The BobbyCast; Morgan Evans and Kelsea BalleriniCredit: Netflix; Mike Coppola/Getty -

Morgan Evans appeared on The BobbyCast on March 3 and talked about his divorce from Kelsea Ballerini

The couple split in 2022 after nearly five years of marriage

Evans said he went through "all the stages of grief" amid online "vitriol" following the divorce

Morgan Evans is opening up about his divorce from Kelsea Ballerini, and the ways in which he had to learn to adapt to trolls on the internet.

The Australian country singer and Ballerini broke up in 2022 after nearly five years of marriage, and Evans, 40, has stayed largely quiet when it comes to his ex. But on Tuesday, March 3, he appeared on Bobby Bones’ The BobbyCast, and said it “pissed [him] off” when people made unfair comments about him after the split.

“You go through all the stages of grief with it, right? Like, ‘Oh my God,’ and then you get kind of angry,” he said. “Dealing with an online kind of vitriol is almost a skill you have to learn, or some techniques you have to learn for that.”

Evans put out the song “Over for You” in 2022 about the divorce, along with an accompanying docuseries, while Ballerini released the revealing EP Rolling Up the Welcome Mat, which saw her breaking down what went wrong in their relationship.

In 2023, the “Baggage” singer, 32, also did an interview on the Call Her Daddy podcast, where she divulged more details about their marriage, including periods of separation and years of couples therapy.

"I didn’t come to this realization quickly or immediately but in my case, it didn’t feel like it necessarily had a lot to do with me,” Evans said of the comments that were aimed toward him during that period. "I think maybe I was presented or made out to be or became an archetype for any guy that had done any woman wrong during that period of time. And some of the stuff was just like, ‘What is this? That didn’t even make sense.’”

The singer — who is releasing his new album Steel Town on March 20 — said the negative comments didn’t “not hurt,” but he’d sometimes look through commenters’ profiles and realize, “That looks like somebody going through a tough time.”

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Morgan Evans and Laci Kaye Booth at the CMA Awards in Nashville in November 2025.Credit: Emma McIntyre/Getty

He also reflected on the advice given to him by his good friend Bones, 45, which he said “kept me going” during the early days of life post-divorce.

“You said, ‘There’s only two ways you can deal with this. You need to go and say everything as loudly as you can and be as honest as you can, or you just need to go away, don’t say anything, and live your best life,’” Evans recalled.

Evans opted for the latter, and though he said that going through divorce was “horrendous,” he mostly kept his thoughts and feelings under wraps. He did, however, release a public statement following Ballerini's appearance on Call Her Daddy that said the singer-songwriter was "saying things that aren't reality and [leaving] out what really happened," and asking fans to be kind to both of them.

Evans is now in a relationship with singer Laci Kaye Booth, and will release his new album later this month.

“These 11 tracks to me, they all say something important on that journey of the last three years,” he told Bones of choosing his tracklist. “It’s good to be back here with a record that I feel really proud about and a story to tell.”

In a post on his Substack on Monday, March 2, Evans explained why he chose now to do the interview with Bones, saying he felt as though he had to address “the elephant in the room,” meaning his divorce.

“It’s about my divorce. Of course it is. That’s not why I did the interview, and it’s definitely not what we talked about the whole time,” he wrote. “As I stepped back into press for this record, I could feel the elephant in the room. If I didn’t acknowledge it, every conversation would just dance around it. So I did. It’s part of my story. And it shaped a part of this record.”

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