ABC/Image Group LA Miranda Lambert hasn’t done very many in-depth interviews since her split from Blake Shelton in 2015, or the release the following year of her album, The Weight of These Wings. But she opens up to journalist Holly Gleason in a new article for Hits Daily Double.
The typically candid CMA and ACM Female Vocalist of the Year pulls no punches when it comes to admitting her own shortcomings. “I am who I am. I am honest about being flawed. That’s all I can be, you know?” Miranda admits. “I cuss. I drink. I get divorced and get my heart broken. I break hearts…”
As she’s done before, Miranda acknowledges she uses both her writing and her recordings to deal with her emotions.
“My intention was to use it as therapy, to figure this s*** out,” she declares. “I was going through a divorce very publicly, and thank the Lord I am a writer. That meant I could find some way to deal with it…”
“There’s fun stuff on there too,” she says of The Weight of These Wings. “I feel like I’ve captured the seven stages of grief, but it took me 24 songs to get there.”
“It made me feel so alone,” Miranda says of the divorce, “as much as it does anybody else.”
The “Keeper of the Flame” singer also talks about being a favorite target of the tabloid media.
“It’s such bulls***,” she says. “I’m thankful for the drama of it all, because it gets sillier and sillier. They make up so many lies, no one can know the truth. The truth is it’s in my music if you listen close enough.”
Look for more from Miranda in the upcoming second part of the Hits Daily Double interview.
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