Kellie Pickler is talking out for the primary time since her husband, Kyle Jacobs, died at age 49 in February.
“One of the crucial stunning classes my husband taught me was in a second of a disaster, for those who don’t know what to do, ‘do nothing, simply be nonetheless.’ I’ve chosen to heed his recommendation,” Pickler, 37, mentioned in an announcement to Individuals on Thursday, August 17. “Thanks to my household, associates, and supporters, for the numerous letters, calls, and messages that you’ve despatched my approach. It has really touched my soul and it’s serving to me get by the darkest time in my life. As a lot of you might have informed me, you’re all in my prayers.”
Pickler additionally shared her plans for Jacobs’ memorial service. “I’m planning an intimate memorial for my husband, which is able to occur later this fall, that’s what Kyle would have needed,” she mentioned.
The assertion comes three months after a spokesperson for the Davidson Nation Medical Examiner confirmed to E! Information in Might that Jacobs died by suicide. Based on an post-mortem report obtained by Style of Nation, the late nation star had a historical past of “pseudoseizures, gastrointestinal bleeding, elevated liver enzymes and power alcohol use.” Nonetheless, a toxicology report concluded that there have been no indicators of medicine in Jacobs’ system.
Information broke on February 17 that the “Extra Than a Reminiscence” songwriter died from an obvious self-inflicted gunshot wound at his and Pickler’s dwelling.
“Mr. Jacobs’ spouse, Kellie Pickler, reported that she awoke a short while earlier, didn’t see her husband, and commenced searching for him. After she and her private assistant had been unable to open the door to the upstairs bed room/workplace, the assistant telephoned 911,” the Metropolitan Nashville Police mentioned in an announcement to Selection on the time.
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The musicians met by mutual associates in 2008. Us Weekly confirmed that the couple received engaged in June 2010. “It’s true!” Pickler’s rep informed Us on the time. “She’s tremendous excited.”
The “Greatest Days of Your Life” songstress mirrored on the romantic proposal in March 2017.
“One of the crucial particular days in my life will all the time be June 15,” she wrote by way of Instagram on the time. “On that date in 2010, Kyle and I had been in Rosemary Seashore, [Florida], on what he informed me was only a ‘trip’ … That night, after a romantic dinner, we took a sundown stroll on the seashore … Little did I do know, he had secretly planted a small wood field within the sand.”
The Dancing With the Stars alum defined that contained in the field was a journal Jacobs “had written for me,” an engagement ring and a seashell together with her grandmother’s identify written on it.
“What was so unbelievable is that Kyle didn’t notice that THAT day, was additionally my grandmother’s birthday. It was like my stunning angel, the one I name mother, was giving us her blessing,” she shared. “So, Kyle and I wish to rejoice June fifteenth as a pair … Nonetheless and eternally loopy in love.”
Lower than one yr after getting engaged, the pair eloped within the Caribbean. “It was excellent, as a result of we didn’t plan something,” Pickler mentioned of the low-key nuptials throughout a February 2011 look on the Ellen DeGeneres Present. “I packed the marriage gown and he packed an outfit. We flew there and we didn’t know what sort of cake we had been going to get. We didn’t know what meals we had been going to have … it was essentially the most unbelievable day of my life.”
After Jacobs’ dying, Pickler’s former Pickler & Ben cohost, Ben Aaron, shared a transferring tribute by way of Instagram.
“I by no means had lots of man associates as a result of I used to be by no means a typical man. It was all the time tough for me to fulfill a pal. Then got here Kyle, a bundle cope with my former work spouse Kellie,” wrote Aaron, 41, noting that Pickler quickly started to really feel like “the third wheel” of the crew.
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He continued: “I liked Kyle as a result of it was unattainable to not. He was the bottom in a world the place most individuals float aimlessly. I want somebody like Kyle into the lives of everybody, he’s that man you need with you when your world is loopy. … I’ll miss your heat and scratchy cackle of fun, I’ll miss our random texts after we see some inappropriate signal or inside joke. However most of all, I’ll miss you, my pal.”
