Zac Brown‘s estranged spouse, Kelly Yazdi, has spoken out after he was granted a short lived restraining order in opposition to her.
In accordance with authorized paperwork obtained by ET final week, Brown claimed in his request that one in all Yazdi’s current Instagram posts is in violation of confidentiality agreements she has signed with him. ET reached out to legal professionals for each side for statements.
Yazi took to Instagram on Sunday to share her facet of the story, posting a video wherein she thanked followers for his or her help and shared a prolonged assertion within the caption.
“Nobody — not even Zac Brown with all of his cash, energy, superstar, and legal professionals – could silence my proper to freely categorical myself by way of artwork or, though I’ve up to now declined to take action publicly, to talk about the circumstances of our pending divorce,” she wrote. “I intend to reply swiftly and robustly to his meritless criticism that publication of two poems on my private social media account divulged any ‘confidential data’ about his enterprise, a lot much less authorizes a courtroom to enjoin me from talking about issues in my private life that don’t have anything to do with my transient former work for the Zac Brown Collective, Inc.”
“It’s past ironic that Zac’s first act after submitting an pointless public divorce lawsuit was to launch a music video that intentionally mocked our marriage ceremony occasion from only some months earlier than — together with a false and defamatory caricature clearly meant to be me and harm me – adopted by a second pointless and legally meritless public lawsuit and press launch, but he now claims his ‘solely hope’ is that we present one another ‘mutual respect’ by protecting ‘personal issues personal’ as we negotiate the phrases of our divorce,” she continued.
Yazdi seems to be referring to the music video for Avicii’s remix of Zac Brown Band’s “Stunning Drug,” which was launched in February. The video does characteristic a raucous occasion scene and a brunette main girl.
“In a misguided effort to do exactly that, I’ve made no public response to both of these very public, very pointless private assaults on me by my superstar soon-to-be-ex-husband,” Yazdi added in her assertion. “However it’s clearly Zac, not me, who has strategically chosen to tug our tough divorce negotiations into the general public eye with these techniques in an effort to painting himself as a sufferer and to make use of his huge sources to silence me from telling the reality about our marriage. It won’t work, and I can’t be silenced by him regardless of how ridiculous his techniques.”
“Like Zac, I’ve legal professionals too, and I’ll inform my fact in courtroom — the place he has unnecessarily dragged me,” she concluded.
Brown, 45, and Yazdi, 32, received engaged in 2022 after he popped the query in Hawaii. In accordance with TMZ, Brown and Yazdi secretly tied the knot on Aug. 31, 2023, in Coweta County, Georgia.
Experiences of the couple’s separation went public in December 2023, with the estranged pair saying in a joint assertion that they’re “within the means of divorce.”
They added, “Our mutual respect for each other stays. We want one another the most effective and can at all times recognize our time collectively. As we navigate this private matter, we merely request privateness throughout this time.”
TMZ, who first broke the information, reported that there was rising hypothesis Brown and Yazdi break up after followers observed she deactivated her Instagram account after which reactivated with the Brown final identify faraway from her bio. She additionally now not follows the Zac Brown Band frontman and wiped each picture of him from her profile.
Although the Instagram submit in query just isn’t named within the order granting Brown the non permanent restraining order, lots of Yazdi’s current posts have been about gratitude, self-empowerment and “reemergence.”
“My sunshine grows stronger on daily basis, introduced again to life by the help and encouragement of so many who’ve battled the identical monster, sharing horror tales of their very own, lastly harnessing the braveness to face up,” reads her most up-to-date Instagram, which contains a video of Yazdi standing within the rain.
This can be Brown’s second divorce. He was married to Shelly Brown for 12 years earlier than they break up in 2018. They share 5 youngsters collectively.
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