Kellie Pickler is constant to grieve the lack of her husband, Kyle Jacobs, six months after he died by suicide.
The nation musician broke her silence on Jacobs’s dying by saying plans for a forthcoming memorial service and expressing her gratitude to her household, pals and followers for his or her help.
“One of the most beautiful lessons my husband taught me was in a moment of a crisis, if you don’t know what to do, ‘do nothing, just be still,’” Pickler stated in an announcement cited by People and The Tennessean, amongst different shops. “I have chosen to heed his advice.”
“Thank you to my family, friends, and supporters, for the countless letters, calls, and messages that you have sent my way,” she added. “It has truly touched my soul and it’s helping me get through the darkest time in my life. As many of you have told me, you are all in my prayers.”
Though Pickler didn’t affirm specifics, she famous that “an intimate memorial” for Jacobs would happen this fall.
“That is what Kyle would have wanted,” she stated.
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Jacobs, 49, was discovered lifeless Feb. 17 on the Nashville residence he shared with Pickler. An post-mortem later confirmed that he died of a “self-inflicted shotgun wound” and that no medication had been in his system on the time of his dying.
A Minnesota native, Jacobs was the co-writer of Garth Brooks’ record-breaking smash “More Than a Memory,” which in 2007 was the primary music to debut at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart. He additionally co-wrote “8th World Wonder,” which grew to become a success for “American Idol” finalist Kimberley Locke in 2004.
Some of his different collaborators embrace Kelly Clarkson and Tim McGraw.
“My favorite songs ― and I feel like the ones that resonate with the world or whoever’s listening to them ― are the ones that are the most real,” Jacobs stated in 2017 of his songwriting course of. “What I have to do constantly is look inside my heart, look inside my soul and look inside my mind and say to myself, ‘What is real to me and do I want to sing about?’”
Pickler rose to fame in 2006 as a contestant on Season 5 of “American Idol,” the place she completed in fifth place. Since then, she’s launched 4 studio albums, together with 2013’s “The Woman I Am.”
She and Jacobs had been married in 2011. Four years later, they co-starred on the CMT actuality collection “I Love Kellie Pickler.”
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