Kellie Pickler talks about her ‘blessed’ life in first interview since husband Kyle Jacobs’ death
Kellie Pickler and Kyle Jacobs are planning a big wedding, and they thought the more they could watch them tie the knot, the more fun it would be.
But before the invitations arrived, the Nashville-based couple realized something.
“Every time I got to the guest list, I was like, ‘Oh my god, I hate half of these people.’ Nothing personal,” Pickler said on The Ellen DeGeneres Show a month after she eloped with Jacobs to Antigua. On January 1, 2011, the couple exchanged vows on the beach. She called it “the most incredible day of my life.”
She engraved “1-1-11” on one side of her husband’s wedding ring and said, “Please put it back!” The other side is engraved so you’ll know exactly what to do if you remove it.
After Mr. Jacobs died by suicide on February 17, 2023, there was no instruction manual to follow. And Mr. Pickler didn’t pretend otherwise.
“One of the greatest lessons my husband taught me was that if you don’t know what to do in a moment of crisis, ‘do nothing and just be still,'” she told People magazine in August 2023, her first comment following Jacobs’ death. “I decided to follow his advice.”
