Zac Brown filed a lawsuit against his estranged wife on May 17, seeking a temporary restraining order to remove an Instagram post he claimed destroyed his image publicly. In response, his estranged wife dropped a message on social media.
“No one—not even Zac Brown with all of his money, power, celebrity, and lawyers,” Kelly captioned a May 19 TikTok video, “may silence my right to freely express myself through art or, although I have to date declined to do so publicly, to speak about the circumstances of our pending divorce.”
“I intend to respond swiftly and robustly to his meritless complaint that the publication of two poems on my personal social media account divulged any ‘confidential information’ about his business, much less authorizes a court to enjoin me from speaking about matters in my personal life that have nothing to do with my brief former work for the Zac Brown Collective, Inc.” She continued
”I have made no public response to either of those very public, very unnecessary personal attacks on me by my celebrity soon-to-be-ex-husband,” she wrote. “But it is Zac, not me, who has strategically chosen to drag our difficult divorce negotiations into the public eye with these tactics to portray himself as a victim and to use his vast resources to silence me from telling the truth about our marriage.”
“It will not work, and I will not be silenced by him no matter how ridiculous his tactics. Like Zac, I have lawyers too, and I will tell my truth in court — where he has unnecessarily dragged me.” She concluded.
The Zac Brown band frontman accused Kelly of violating a confidentiality agreement she had signed by sharing an Instagram post, which had not been specified, per court documents obtained by NBC News. In addition to seeking an emergency temporary restraining order to remove the post, he also asked the court to prevent Kelly from “making any defamatory, false, untrue, or otherwise damaging statements.”
”We are in the process of divorce. Our mutual respect for one another remains,” they said in a December 2023 statement. “We wish each other the best and will always appreciate our time together. As we navigate this personal matter, we simply request privacy during this time.”
In respect to his lawsuit, Zac—who also shares five kids with his first wife Shelly Brown—told NBC News in a statement, “I took the steps necessary to enforce an agreement between us to maintain personal and business affairs in confidence and to protect my family from online harassment and speculation.”
