Maren Morris Says She Realized Divorce Is ‘Weird’ When Her Mutual Friends with Ex Ryan Hurd Chose ‘Sides’

Maren Morris is opening up about the intricacies of divorce.

During an appearance on Therapuss with Jake Shane on Wednesday, June 18, the “My Church” singer got candid about going through a divorce in a “small town” like Nashville — where she and ex Ryan Hurd have mutual friends.

“In Nashville, you know I’ve been divorced for a little over a year now. It’s a small town, and we’re all friends, and we all work together, and the music industry is very tiny there,” Morris, 35, said of Hurd, 38.

Though the exes are “really friendly,” she said it’s “weird” because their friends had to “pick sides.”

“Just in terms of respect for each other,” she said. “I saw a really close friend of my ex’s at a bar a couple months ago, and I was with my best friend. We all used to hang out together for a decade or more and then it’s like, ‘Damn, it’s just going to be kind of weird.’ Maybe it’s just going to be weird for the first few years.”

Morris and Hurd — who share 5-year-old son Hayes — met  in 2013 when they wrote “Last Turn Home” for Tim McGraw, but their romance didn’t blossom until a few years later. They married in March 2018.

Morris filed for divorce in October 2023, and the exes reached a settlement agreement three months later. They finalized their divorce in January 2024.

On Therapuss, Morris said that as she got older, she realized people who aren’t “energetically aligned” started to “fade away” from her life.

“I have these people who have been my ride or dies but I feel like COVID changed a lot of people, when I had my son I could feel people fall away,” she continued. “I think when you have kids sometimes… I think as a new mother it’s already such a lonely time and you’re very isolated plus it was COVID. But I certainly made friends who are moms through the process.”

Morris’ comments come after she made an appearance on the Dear Chelsea podcast and revealed she and Hurd were able to move past a lot of their problems to put their son first.

“We’re over a year out now … we get along now and have moved past a lot of it,” Morris said. “We’re neighbors, and I’m just so fortunate that we have put our son above each other’s s—, and it’s better for the two of us if we’re getting along.”

“I’m lucky that we love each other so much still,” she said. “We have the highest respect, but also there is that devastation that two people [who] love each other that much can’t make it work in the real world. It’s always going to be multifaceted.”