Tragic Details About Miranda Lambert

Though she rose to stardom at a young age, Miranda Lambert was once an awkward teenager growing up in Lindale, Texas. She told Seventeen that she was far from a straight-A student. "I didn't fail, but I barely passed." This wasn't the singer's way of rebelling at all, though. "I was kind of pretty straight as a kid. I was in the band at church, so all the kids would come hang out at my house. I didn't go to parties or anything like that."

She may have been social, but that's not the same thing as fashionable. Lambert described her high school style as "bad, real bad." In fact, the "Only Prettier" singer confessed that she didn't find her stride in fashion until she was on national TV competing on Nashville Star. "I didn't wear any makeup. I would wear wind pants and T-shirts to school. Hideous."

But Lambert had bigger things to worry about than her style or even her grades because she admitted she was very nervous about her future as a teenager. "I would tell my 17-year-old self that it's all going to be okay," she said. "Because I was a little worried about it, and I still kind of am, but I had anxiety about every little bitty thing when I was 17, so I just tell myself it's going to work out."

"My parents worked their a**es off my whole life, but when you are self-employed like that, sometimes things just go down the tubes, and the phone stops ringing," Miranda Lambert told Success. "You just have to start over, and that's what they did." 

That meant the Lamberts rented a small house described as "rat-infested" in From Cradle To Stage: Stories From Mothers Who Rocked And Raised Rock Stars. Miranda's mom Beverly Lambert told author Virginia Hanlon Grohl that she would pray, "God, give me the ground under my feet." Beverly drove past a specific house every day that she dreamed of living in and prayed for that, too. One day, her prayers were answered by a preacher who had noticed her and offered to rent the family the home for less than they were paying at the time.

Of those hard times, Miranda told Success, "I learned how to do chores because you have to carry your weight." When they were more stable again, the Lamberts still "lived off the land" to support themselves. Richard Lambert would hunt to put meat on the table for his family, and Miranda developed a love for the sport. "My dad said, 'My family will never go hungry again,' and we didn't," she continued in Success. "So I guess I got that fighter spirit in me because I want to work, I want to provide, because back when I was a kid, it got ingrained in me."

Miranda Lambert chose to rebuild her life in a brand new city after her divorce from Blake Shelton rather than immediately move home to Lindale, Texas. We suppose there is no state in the country where no one knows the "Gunpowder And Lead" singer's name, so she may as well go where no one remembers her awkward phases, at the very least. 

"I moved here in 2015 in the middle of a sh*t show," Lambert told a crowd of Nashvillians while on her Wildcard tour in 2020. "But I was lifted up by people who were like, 'we got you, girl." The singer admitted that she spent a lot of time at bars in midtown Nashville and "I realized at that point, somehow sittin' there cryin' in my beer like we do when we sing country music, it healed me all the way. Like, deep down healed me to the bone." Lambert wrote songs in those bars. While beer and music have been a remedy for heartache, it's still sad to picture a country music superstar alone in a dark bar crying in her beer and writing lyrics on a napkin.

Blame supposedly goes both ways when it comes to the end of Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert's marriage. TMZ reported that a source close to Lambert's team said that the "Bathroom Sink" singer never cheated on her ex-husband, but Shelton cheated on her with a fellow singer. The source thought Shelton's PR team "attacked Miranda before the ink was dry on the divorce docs."

Shelton allegedly cheated on Lambert with late singer Cady Groves sometime between 2013-2014. Days after Shelton and Lambert filed for divorce in 2015, Groves posted (now deleted) tweets about lost love (via Hollywood Life). "It's sick that I experienced a once in a lifetimes love-still as strong as the day it happened- & have been punished every single day since," Groves reportedly tweeted. " I never quit loving you—you just ran. Isn't that what they teach you love is? One loves the other more and therefor [SIC] holds the power to virtually murder the other. After all these years- it's you. Always was: always will be."

Grooves unexpectedly died in May 2020 of "complications from chronic ethanol abuse," Today reported.

Miranda Lambert loves to write and perform music, but she'd definitely like to leave some aspects of celebrity in the dust. "When everyone's worried about your personal life, it makes you feel like, 'Well, if you could just spend some of that time talking about my actual art, that would be great!'" she told Health in 2019. "I'm never gonna get used to the public eye in that way."

But it's hard being a woman in country music and Lambert told Success that she's let the pressure get the best of her sometimes. "If something happened, I'd throw a fit. But I think once you've proved your point, you don't have to scream." Part of Lambert's frustration may have had to do with a strange trend among her hits. "Yes, I had to sing with someone with a penis to get a number one," she told The Washington Post in 2018. Of course, Lambert has had a few number-one hits in her career, but it is harder for her to do than her male peers.

Lambert chooses to say what she needs to say on her records (which do sell well among fans) rather than worry about getting hits on the radio. That was especially true with her 2016 post-divorce double album The Weight Of These Wings. "I know radio's been a struggle, but 
I really needed to say these things," she told Hits Daily Double.