Kellie Pickler Breaks Silence 6 Months After Husband’s Death: ‘Darkest Time In My Life’

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Kellie Pickler broke her soundlessness pursuing her husband Kyle Jacobs’ death. Six months to the time of Kyle’s death, Kellie released a connection to PEOPLE, updating fans connected however she’s dealing with her grief. “One of the astir beauteous lessons my hubby taught maine was successful a infinitesimal of a crisis, if you don’t cognize what to do, ‘do nothing, conscionable beryllium still,'” she said. “I person chosen to heed his advice.”

She added, “Thank you to my family, friends, and supporters, for the countless letters, calls, and messages that you person sent my way,” the state prima and vigor big continued. “It has genuinely touched my psyche and it’s helping maine get done the darkest clip successful my life. As galore of you person told me, you are each successful my prayers.” Kellie besides confirmed that she’d beryllium holding a memorial work for Kyle successful the coming months. “This is what Kyle would person wanted,” she confirmed.

Kellie and Kyle connected the reddish carpet. (Jim Ruymen/UPI/Shutterstock)

Kyle was 49 years aged erstwhile helium died by suicide connected Feb. 17, 2023. Police confirmed that the songwriter was deceased by the clip they arrived to his location aft being called by Kellie. The state vocalist and Dancing With the Stars winner called authorities aft she wasn’t capable to unfastened a doorway successful the pair’s home, the Nashville Police Department confirmed.

Kyle’s autopsy and toxicology study revealed that determination were nary drugs successful his strategy astatine the clip of his death. However, the aesculapian examiner confirmed that helium had a past of “pseudoseizures, gastrointestinal bleeding, elevated liver enzymes, and chronic intoxicant use.”

Kellie and Kyle were archetypal introduced via communal friends successful 2007. After getting engaged successful June 2010, they coiled up eloping connected New Year’s Day 2011, conscionable six and a fractional months later. In summation to being married, Kellie and Kyle besides worked unneurotic professionally implicit the years, collaborating arsenic songwriters successful Nashville.

If you oregon idiosyncratic you cognize is successful crisis, telephone the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline astatine 988, oregon interaction the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741.