Kelsea Ballerini Rocks Sexy Open Back Dress At CMA Awards After Divorce

Kelsea Ballerini came to slay connected the CMA Awards reddish carpet! The gorgeous state vocalist looked beyond stunning successful her ensemble for grant amusement night. She wore a long-sleeved, neon bluish formal arsenic she strutted down the reddish carpet. The ensemble featured gloves and an unfastened back. Kelsea completed the look with her hairsbreadth styled agelong and straight, parted down the middle. She besides wore pointed-toed shoes, which peeked retired the bottommost of her gown.

Kelsea Ballerini astatine CMA Awards. (Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock)

The CMA Awards are a large nighttime for Kelsea, arsenic she’s nominated AND performing astatine the show. Not lone is Kelsea up for Single of the Year for her opus “Half of My Hometown,” but she’s hitting the signifier with Kelly Clarkson and Carly Pearce for a sure-to-be epic performance. The ladies are singing their collab “You’re Drunk, Go Home,” which was featured connected Kelsea’s Sept. 2022 album Subject To Change. Kelsea won her archetypal CMA Awards successful 2021 for “Half Of My Hometown”, which took location Musical Event of the Year and Video of the Year.

This lawsuit is Kelsea’s archetypal large awards amusement since her split from husband, Morgan Evans, during the summertime of 2022. The mates announced their divided erstwhile Kelsea filed for divorcement successful August. “This profoundly hard determination is the effect of a travel of love, maturation and effort that has yet travel to an end,” Kelsea wrote connected Instagram. “It’s highly hard to find the words here, but I consciousness highly grateful for the years of matrimony with Morgan and hopeful for the adjacent seasons.”

Kelsea and Morgan were joined for astir 5 years erstwhile they called it quits. Morgan hinted that helium was blindsided by the breakup erstwhile helium debuted the heartbreaking caller song “Over For You” astatine the extremity of September. “How agelong person you been breaking, erstwhile I’m conscionable uncovering out?” Morgan sings successful the song. He besides croons, “I would’ve fto you spell if you wanted maine to, however galore times did you accidental you emotion maine erstwhile it wasn’t true? I’m conscionable wondering, however agelong has it been implicit for you?”

Meanwhile, Kelsea opened up further astir the divorcement successful an interrogation with CBS Mornings. “It’s not chaotic, it’s not volatile. It conscionable didn’t work,” she insisted. “And that sometimes is simply a hard communicative to get your caput astir erstwhile you’re conscionable like, ‘Oh my gosh, this is simply a bully person, and I’m a bully person, and this conscionable isn’t bully anymore.'” Their divorcement was finalized a week earlier the CMA Awards.