How Kacey Musgraves Sold Kelsea Ballerini Her 'Healing' Post-Divorce Home in a 'Woman-to-Woman' Deal

Mar. 15, 2025

Kacey Musgraves (L), Kelsea Ballerini (R).Photo:Bruce Glikas/Getty; Todd Williamson/NBC via Getty

Bruce Glikas/Getty; Todd Williamson/NBC via Getty

Kelsea Ballerinihas her dream home, thanks toKacey Musgraves!

During arecent appearanceon theCall Her Daddypodcast, Ballerini, 30, opened up to hostAlex Cooperabout how she could finallymove into the 1920s cottageshe first tried to acquire in 2020 during theCOVID-19 pandemic.

“I tried to buy this house, and I was like, ‘I want a house that feels like I don’t have to be a full adult yet.’ And I saw this house on Zillow, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, this is my house.’ I tried to buy it. It didn’t work out. Another wonderful, amazing artist bought it,” she explained.

“She wasgoing through a divorce at the time,” Ballerini continues of the performer who got the keys instead. In the meantime, “I moved .9 miles down the road to a house I never really loved, but I needed to move out of the penthouse,” she said.

Not long after, Ballerini found herself at the same difficult moment in her own life and got an unexpected helping hand from the person who had scooped up her dream home, she said: “When I got divorced, I texted Kacey, who bought this house.”

The “Penthouse” singer asked Musgraves, 35, to let her know if she ever wanted to move out of the property and received a text “within like a month” asking if her if she was serious.

Kelsea Ballerini in Nashville in August 2023.Jason Kempin/Getty

Jason Kempin/Getty

“We didn’t use real estate agents. It was woman-to-woman. And she was like, ‘This was my healing house.’ It makes me a little emo,” Ballerini recalls. Musgraves and musician husband Ruston Kellyfiled for divorcein July 2020 after almost three years of marriage.

Ballerini was marriedto fellow country artistMorgan Evansfor nearly five years before shefiled for divorcein August 2022. The twofinalized their divorcethat November.

Chase Stokes and Kelsea Ballerini at The 57th Annual CMA Awards at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville on Nov. 8, 2023.Christopher Polk/Variety via Getty

Christopher Polk/Variety via Getty

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In acover story interviewwith Stylecaster in July, Ballerini shared why she and Stokes, 31,chose to go public with their romance.

“The thing that we’ve decided, and to each their own, is when you’re with someone that you feel secure with and that you’re proud to be with, why not share it? He’s also a Virgo, we’re very similar; we’reboth Labrador Retrieversin human form," she said. “It doesn’t take much conversation to be on the same page, which is nice. It’s been half a year and it’s been great.”

source: people.com