Zac Brown’s Ex-Wife, Kelly Yazdi, Draws Eerie Comparisons To Her & Kendra Scott’s Relationship With The Singer: “Rinse & Repeat”
Zac Brown’s ex-wife, Kelly Yazdi, is speaking up again. In 2023, Zac Brown Band frontman Zac Brown and his wife, Kelly Yazdi, announced their divorce, just four months after their private Nashville ceremony. It was Brown’s second marriage, following his 12-year marriage to jewelry designer Shelly Brown, the mother of his five children, which ended in divorce in 2018. The split between Brown and Yazdi has been a messy one, with the divorce being finalized in January. And his ex-wife has since […] The post Zac Brown’s Ex-Wife, Kelly Yazdi, Draws Eerie Comparisons To Her & Kendra Scott’s Relationship With The Singer: “Rinse & Repeat” first appeared on Whiskey Riff.


Zac Brown’s ex-wife, Kelly Yazdi, is speaking up again.
In 2023, Zac Brown Band frontman Zac Brown and his wife, Kelly Yazdi, announced their divorce, just four months after their private Nashville ceremony. It was Brown’s second marriage, following his 12-year marriage to jewelry designer Shelly Brown, the mother of his five children, which ended in divorce in 2018.
The split between Brown and Yazdi has been a messy one, with the divorce being finalized in January. And his ex-wife has since revealed that Brown reportedly asked for a divorce over Zoom just nine days after their wedding reception. At the same time, the singer has also filed a lawsuit against Yazdi over a poem she wrote and posted to her Instagram, claiming that she was defaming him.
After a few months of no updates regarding the status of their divorce or the drama surrounding it, Kelly Yazdi posted an update on July 16th, revealing that the divorce is finalized and that Zac is still trying to tie her up with expensive lawsuits as a means to control her.
At the end of this update, Yazdi shared that they’re set to go to trial on September 15th:
“Zac has been dragging me through lawsuits for the last year and a half now. It started back in early 2024, when he tried to force me to sign a marital NDA during our divorce, which I refused. And a couple weeks later, he used our wedding video in his music video, replacing me with a look-a-like model who was engaging in inappropriate behavior. It was just… disgusting.
Then in May 2024, he filed a lawsuit against me in regard to a poem I wrote, claiming it violated my employment agreement with his company, Zac Brown Collective (ZBC). He even tried to get a temporary restraining order to silence me, which ended up being denied in federal court. Then, he sued me again, this time accusing me of “corporate espionage,” basically “Coke versus Pepsi” kind of stuff, and asking for an injunction against me. Then After a very long and very expensive discovery process, in December 2024, Zac withdrew his motion for a preliminary injunction claim — and essentially admitted there was no evidence and no damages.
Despite all of this, Zac has kept me tied up in expensive lawsuits as a means to control and intimidate me, even though our divorce was finalized in January (so just a few months ago). Why this guy won’t just leave me alone, I don’t know. This has been an incredibly difficult, expensive, and emotional journey: one that I never asked for and one that I hope no one else ever has to go through. But I have to stand up for myself, and for anyone who has ever felt controlled or silenced by someone with more power and resources.”