Kelsea Ballerini attended the 2022 CMT Artists of the Year lawsuit successful Nashville connected Oct. 12. The gorgeous vocalist rocked the reddish carpet successful an perfectly stunning look. Kelsea has upped her manner crippled large clip implicit the past respective years, and she proved it erstwhile again astatine this event. For the reddish carpet, Kelsea wore a yellowish silk plunging fastener up apical paired with a matching broadside wrapper skirt. The 29-year-old’s look was implicit with gorgeous makeup, which featured melodramatic smokey eyes, achromatic nail polish, and earthy articulator gloss. Her blonde hairsbreadth was styled successful agelong wavy locks, which went perfectly with the afloat look, which astir resembled a posh, retired of the ablution with silk robe vibe. She rocked strappy sandals and showed disconnected her toned legs with a thigh precocious slit arsenic she deed the reddish carpet for the event. Finally, Kelsea accessorized with sparkling golden angiosperm earrings and 2 connection rings to implicit her outfit.

In 2021, Kelsea was really 1 of the 5 honorees astatine CMT’s Artists of the Year. This year, though, she was on-hand arsenic a presenter. The honorees for 2022 are Carly Pearce, Luke Combs, Kane Brown, Walker Hayes and Cody Johnson. Kelsea is really longtime friends with Carly, and they adjacent collaborated connected a opus from Kelsea’s Sept. 2021 record, Subject to Change. Kelsea, Carly and Kelly Clarkson teamed up for the way “You’re Drunk, Go Home” connected the album.
While the aftermath of Kelsea’s medium merchandise has been an unthinkable clip for the singer, she’s besides been dealing with immoderate idiosyncratic struggles. At the extremity of August, Kelsea confirmed that she had filed for divorce from her husband, Morgan Evans, who she joined successful Dec. 2017. Although Kelsea hasn’t talked overmuch astir the split, she did unfastened up astir her determination successful an October interrogation with CBS Mornings.
“It’s not chaotic, it’s not volatile, it conscionable didn’t work,” she admitted. “That sometimes is simply a hard communicative to get your caput around, erstwhile you’re like, ‘Oh my gosh, this is simply a bully idiosyncratic and I’m a bully person, but this conscionable isn’t bully anymore.'” Kelsea besides pointed retired that, portion the divorcement was “difficult,” she was besides making definite to retrieve however celebratory this clip successful her beingness is. In summation to releasing Subject to Change, she besides embarked connected a 10-city circuit to beforehand the medium successful September and October.
CMT’s Artists of the Year volition aerial connected the web connected Friday, October 14 astatine 9:00 p.m. ET.