Reba McEntire sounds like a woman who’d be wary of marrying a man she worked with again.
The singer and coach on The Voice described life with Narvel Blackstock prior to their 2015 divorce, and while she didn’t shade her ex, she hardly painted a picture of love and harmony.
- Reba McEntire and Narvel Blackstock were married from 1989 to 2015, and they have one son together.
- Blackstock was also the singer’s manager.
- Since divorcing, she’s dated businessman Skeeter Lasuzzo and actor Rex Linn.
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“It was a situation that was always business,” McEntire tells the host. “Whether we were getting ready in the morning, pillow talk, whatever, but it was business.”
This extended deep into personal time like vacations, where McEntire says she and her ex would unplug for a few days before reengaging over something like a tour, album or new venture.
Narvel Blackstock, Reba McEntire and their son Shelby
After the divorce, McEntire made it clear she was not the instigator in their separation, telling CMT, “I didn’t want it in any shape, form or fashion.”
There have been the usual rumors of cheating that come with the end of any celebrity marriage, but nothing substantiated. If Blackstock was a bad husband, he was certainly a good manager.
McEntire’s career took off beyond country music in the 1990s and 2000s, with movie and television projects, a long string of American Music Awards and more.