Archives for February 2007

Kenny Chesney has been spending time shooting down rumors that he’s gay. The rumors were originally sparked when Renee Zellweger cited Fraud as a reason for annulling their brief marriage.

“It’s not true. Period. Maybe I should have come out and said, ‘No, I’m not (gay),’ but I didn’t want to draw any more attention to it,” the country star, 38 tells 60 Minutes in an interview to air Sunday, the Associated Press reports.

“I didn’t have to prove to anybody that I wasn’t (gay). I didn’t feel like I really did,” he says.

In May 2005 Zellweger and Chesney were married in front of friends and family on St. John in the US Virgin Islands. However just four months later Zellweger filled for annulment citing fraud.

Chesney says, “We thought the least harmful (stated reason) was fraud because it (is) kind of broad … doesn’t specify. And boy … we were wrong.”

He adds, “The only fraud that was committed was me thinking that I knew what it was like … that I really understood what it was like to be married, and I really didn’t.”

Chesney claims he has no regrets. “Not at all. Not one bit. Even though I’d sit here and say I wish we’d gotten divorced instead of all that annulment stuff, and saved me a lot of public humiliation …I still don’t have any regrets. I loved her, you know? And it was real.”