“I’m Not A Fan Of Her” – Carly Pearce Addresses Staring Down Travis Tritt’s Daughter (Michael Ray’s Ex-Girlfriend) While Singing “Jolene”
Carly Pearce sits down with Bunnie Xo to discuss the various aspects of her life and career, including revisiting some painful yet public moments from her past. Carly Pearce joined The Dumb Blonde Podcast this week, sitting down on the couch to share the truth about various aspects of her life, including her past divorce from Michael Ray and a moment that brought the divorce back into the spotlight earlier this year. For those unfamiliar with Pearce’s past relationship, she went […] The post “I’m Not A Fan Of Her” – Carly Pearce Addresses Staring Down Travis Tritt’s Daughter (Michael Ray’s Ex-Girlfriend) While Singing “Jolene” first appeared on Whiskey Riff.


Carly Pearce sits down with Bunnie Xo to discuss the various aspects of her life and career, including revisiting some painful yet public moments from her past.
Carly Pearce joined The Dumb Blonde Podcast this week, sitting down on the couch to share the truth about various aspects of her life, including her past divorce from Michael Ray and a moment that brought the divorce back into the spotlight earlier this year.
For those unfamiliar with Pearce’s past relationship, she went through a very public divorce from fellow country singer Michael Ray in 2020, after being married for less than a year. Her album, 29: Written in Stone, was largely about the heartbreak of that experience.
Since then, they’ve both dated other people, but following their divorce, Michael started dating Tyler Tritt, the daughter of ’90s country star Travis Tritt. They’ve since broken up, and I personally don’t know much about the details of their relationship beyond knowing they used to post about each other on occasion. And I definitely don’t know anything about timelines or when they became official, but they shared pictures together within a month or two after the divorce was finalized. As a result, numerous rumors circulated that Ray was unfaithful in his relationship with Pearce.
In the podcast episode, Bunnie Xo asked Pearce if there was one thing that led to their separation or multiple things. Pearce’s answer was relatively straightforward; the marriage she entered was not the marriage she deserved.
“It wasn’t what I signed up for. It just wasn’t the marriage that I know I deserve. I knew that very quickly. And I think in the first, we were only married for 8 months, plenty happened to where it was very clear to me that this just wasn’t a marriage.”
Pearce was then asked point-blank if any infidelity or instances made her question if Ray loved her wholly:
“The album ’29’ wasn’t written out of thin air. I am in the happiest season of my life. If he ever watches this, thank you. Because you taught me more about myself, you taught me how strong I am, put me through things that have made me better now. I don’t wish him evil. I’m so glad that I’m not in that anymore. I think that I was really shown just how much I care about me, you know?
I actually really have a lot of self-worth, and that showed me that. People have a lot of opinions, and that at first was so hard for me. Because I was like, ‘That’s not true, that’s not true, that’s not true. What he’s saying is not true.’ But at the end of the day, my friends who walked that with me, they know. My parent know, and God knows, and that is enough.”
Bunnie Xo then brings up the moment from last year that resurfaced cheating rumors between Pearce and Ray, when Pearce looked at Travis Tritt’s daughter, who is Michael Ray’s ex-girlfriend, dead in the eyes as she sang “Jolene” during Opry 100: A Live Celebration earlier this year.
Social media users were privy to the cheating speculations, noting that they would have rather seen Tyler Tritt on their screen during “Jolene” instead of when the camera actually panned to her during her father’s performance with Post Malone. Pearce boldly responded to the fan’s post, noting that she had indeed stared at Tyler Tritt during her performance.