It was an emotional night for Kellie Pickler. On Monday evening, the 37-year-old nation singer took to the stage on the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, marking the primary time she had returned to dwell singing because the tragic dying of her husband, Kyle Jacobs, in February 2023.
As part of the Walkin’ After Midnight: The Music of Patsy Cline tribute present, Pickler sang the music “The Girl I Am,” a music she co-wrote with Jacobs.
“I might be mendacity if I did not say I used to be not extremely nervous proper now. It is the primary time I have been up on stage shortly,” Pickler admitted to the supportive crowd. “My husband and I truly wrote this music collectively over a decade in the past. The final time I used to be right here within the Ryman Auditorium was with him on a date evening and I do know he’s right here with us tonight.”
Assuring the group that she was “gonna do the most effective I can,” Pickler smiled earlier than belting out the highly effective ballad. Although visibly emotional, Pickler did not miss a be aware, incomes herself a standing ovation after the efficiency.
On Feb. 17, 2023, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Division informed ET that Jacobs was discovered lifeless on the couple’s house in Nashville. He was 49.
Police informed ET that, after being known as to the house, they found Jacobs “deceased from an obvious self-inflicted gunshot wound in an upstairs bed room/workplace.” Police added that “his dying is being investigated as an obvious suicide.”
“Mr. Jacobs’ spouse, Kellie Pickler, reported that she awoke a short while earlier, didn’t see her husband, and started in search of him,” police mentioned. “After she and her private assistant have been unable to open the door to the upstairs bed room/workplace, the assistant telephoned 911.”
Six months after Jacobs’ dying, Pickler launched a press release to Folks, breaking her silence on the loss.
“One of the crucial stunning classes my husband taught me was in a second of a disaster, if you do not know what to do, ‘do nothing, simply be nonetheless,'” Pickler mentioned on the time. “I’ve chosen to heed his recommendation.”
“Thanks to my household, buddies, and supporters, for the numerous letters, calls, and messages that you’ve got despatched my means,” Pickler’s assertion continued. “It has really touched my soul and it is serving to me get by means of the darkest time in my life. As lots of you’ve gotten informed me, you’re all in my prayers.”
Pickler, an American Idol alum, and Jacobs tied the knot in 2011, and co-starred on I Love Kellie Pickler from 2015 to 2017. As well as, Jacobs was a songwriter, having penned tracks for stars together with Garth Brooks, Tim McGraw and Kelly Clarkson.
In case you or anybody you already know is having ideas of suicide, please name the Nationwide Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 or go to SpeakingOfSuicide.com/assets.
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