Chase Stokes has been devastated by his latest breakup with Kelsea Ballerini, a supply solely tells Us Weekly.
“Chase is heartbroken,” the insider tells Us. “It’s been nonstop ups and downs.”
Us confirmed on Thursday, November 20, that Ballerini, 32, and Stokes, 33, had cut up, with a second supply claiming that the pair’s relationship had gotten “so rocky and poisonous.” (Reps for Ballerini and Stokes had been unable to be reached for remark.)
Hours earlier, Stokes raised eyebrows when he seemingly alluded to his drama with the “I Sit in Parks” singer.
“I’m blocked, I did nothing flawed. Sorry. I attempted,” Stokes wrote in a sequence of cryptic Instagram Story messages on Thursday. “I’m sorry for many who believed in us. It’s what it’s. Onwards and upwards.”
Stokes and Ballerini began courting in January 2023, which was the Grammy nominee’s first relationship after her 2022 divorce from Morgan Evans.
“I used to be able to open again up [after my divorce]. I simply felt, ‘Why not? I’ve by no means actually dated. I don’t know the way it works,’” Ballerini mentioned throughout an look on “Name Her Daddy” podcast in February 2023. “I’m like, ‘Let’s simply put ourselves on the market. Let’s simply vibe.’ And it’s been enjoyable. I slid into his DMs. I simply swan dove proper on in. His deal with is ‘hichasestokes’ and I simply mentioned, ‘Hello Chase Stokes.’”
After two years of courting, information broke in September that Ballerini and Stokes had known as it quits.
“It was a tough cut up,” a supply advised Us on the time. “They’d been arguing so much lately, and their communication wasn’t nice within the final month. They had been each touring a lot and attempting to juggle every part, and the arguments piled up.”
Inside weeks, Ballerini and Stokes had been noticed collectively in Scotland and Croatia. Neither star has publicly mentioned their temporary reunion. Whereas Stokes has been busy filming the ultimate season of Netflix’s Outer Banks, Ballerini has been celebrating the latest launch of her Mount Nice EP.
“I’ve completely fallen in love with making EP’s in between albums. There’s such a freedom and unbounded nature to the method, from the writing to the manufacturing, that I’ve discovered to be a inventive train and likewise palate cleanser,” Ballerini wrote by way of Instagram on November 14. “Mount Nice is a group of six songs that I’ve written all through the summer time, marking a chapter of heavy self-examination, longing and stepping additional into who I’m as a 32-year-old lady.”
Ballerini conceptualized Mount Nice within the months after dropping her 2024 studio album, Patterns, and embarking on her first area tour.
“I had the most important dopamine dump of my grownup life and months ‘off’ to actually sit within the emotions that had been arising within the stillness and quiet,” she added. “Whereas I like to be sparkly and assured, I used to be feeling heavy waves of insecurity that I hadn’t actually taken pen to paper about earlier than. [I felt] so seen by followers and music lovers in my more moderen music that has felt extra emotionally peeled again and typically uncomfortably trustworthy, I felt inspired to let all of it out within the most secure manner I understand how. … Mount Nice is a spot, a sense, an uphill journey, and an concept of what’s to come back.”













