Reba McEntire honest words about her divorce: ”Things started going south…”

Reba McEntire is without a doubt one of my favorite singers, and a beautiful lady to boot.

On the surface, it looks like the country music legend has it all; she’s one of the biggest selling artists of all time, as well as a record producer and actress.

But behind the scenes, the Oklahoma-born Queen of Country has been going through a tough time and has suffered more than one dramatic and devastating loss.

In 2015, she and her husband, Narvel Blackstock, got divorced after 26 years of marriage.

Five years later, Reba has opened up her heart and shared some very honest words about what really happened when she split with her soulmate …

Reba McEntire won our hearts when she got her breakthrough in country music in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The Oklahoma native was named “best singer” four years in a row by the Country Music Association.

Naturally, she also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

But despite her brilliant career and all the millions she has earned from it, life has also been pretty tough for Reba.

In 2014, Clark McEntire, Reba McEntire’s father, died. His tragic death turned Reba’s life upside down.

Clark McEntire, a three-time World Champion steer roper, meant a lot for Reba, not only during her childhood, but also throughout her career. In fact, to show her appreciation for him, Reba released the song “Daddy” in 1979, the same year her dad was inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame.

In her 2015 album Love Somebody, Reba dedicated the ballad ”Just Like Them Horses” to her late father. She also revealed that she performed the song at his funeral.

Unfortunately, Reba was forced to say goodbye to her beloved mother as well – only a few years after her father’s passing. In March 2020, Reba’s mother Jacqueline lost her battle with cancer and died at the age of 93.

Jacqueline McEntire always held the dream of becoming a professional country singer. In her youth, she was even compared to Patsy Cline, the iconic female country singer.

”People’ve said she was as good as Patsy, but she didn’t have the breaks – no one to help her. No way to Nashville. Instead, Mama began teachin’ school at 16, got married and settled down on the ranch. Took care of us kuds, thaught us music. We used to sin together as a family,” Reba told Longview News-Journal in 1984.

In 2015, Reba suffered another type of blow that also broke her heart. After 16 years of marriage, Reba and her husband, Narvel Blackstock, announced that they would be going their separate ways.

The couple met back in 1989, when Blackstock played steel guitar player in her band. After a whirlwind romance, Reba and Blackstock tied the knot on a boat at Lake Tahoe.

Their relationship developed into a business partnership as they formed Starstruck Entertainment. The company was created to help manage Reba’s career, but after a while, Blackstock also started producing songs and award-winning hits for his wife.

In 1990, Reba and Narvel welcomed a son, Shelby Steven McEntire Blackstock. For many years they lived a happy life, hand-in-hand not just as partners in the industry but also as a loving couple.

The divorce came as a shock for many, including Reba. She didn’t want to reveal the reason behind the split, but gave some insights in an interview with CMT’s Cody Ala.

“I didn’t want it in any shape, form or fashion. It was really hard to make the adjustment when someone’s not happy. I just want everybody to be happy in their lives because our lives are too short to be miserable. I just thought it was the best thing to take my marbles and go play somewhere else, is what Daddy used to always say,” Reba said.

Of course, the divorce was dramatic for Reba on many levels, including the fact that she had to start handling her own business projects.

Recently, the 66-year-old country icon appeared in the Apple Fitness+ series “Time to Walk” and opened up about on the consequences of her divorce.

”Things started going south with my marriage. Narvel Blackstock, my manager and husband at the time — we got a divorce, and the shocker of it all was, there were four people who were taking care of all my business,” she explained.

”I had my production manager who left, I had my CEO who left, my manager and husband, and my father had died. So four men who were rock and pillars of my world were gone.”

Reba got a real wake-up call when her father and husband disappeared and she was forced to do things by herself.

”I started realizing how much water cost, and the electric bill, and all the things that was going on in my life,” she said “I made the money, I brought it home. So it was a huge, huge change for me.”

”Everything that I was dealing with privately, personally — I had to run it all through. I had to say, ‘OK big boy, I can’t handle this. This is way over my pay grade — I don’t know what to do. And I would wait, and He would guide me. And so without my faith, I have no idea where I would be or my career would be, at this time today,” she said.

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