Miranda Lambert Says She Knew Blake Shelton Was Married When They Met

In July, country singer Miranda Lambert was the subject of a VH1 Behind the Music special, during which she discussed at length her difficult upbringing and rocky road to fame.

However, Lambert admits, her past hasn’t always been an admirable rise to celebrity amid some hard knocks. In an interview on Dateline with Hoda Kotb, the singer admits to knowing full well that now-husband Blake Shelton was married when she met him in 2005 at the CMT 100 Greatest Duets Concert:

“I knew he was married,” said the 27-year-old singer during the interview. “I had seen their wedding picture in Country Weekly. I knew better, like, this is off limits. My parents are private investigators for God’s sake. I’ve seen this my whole life – affairs. Of all people to know better, I know better than this.”

At the time, Shelton was married to first wife Kaynette Williams- but the pair divorced just a year after Lambert and Shelton’s fateful meeting. And while Lambert admits creeping on another woman’s husband, the attraction wasn’t one sided. Shelton recounted during the Behind the Music special:

“I’ve never had that kind of experience with anybody… I was a married guy, you know? Standing up there and singing with somebody and going, ‘Man, this shouldn’t be happening.’ Looking back on that, I was falling in love with her, right there on stage.”

“It was just like this draw to each other. It was just sort of this inevitable chemistry.”

Shelton proposed to Lambert in 2010, and the couple were married in May of this year at the Don Strange Ranch in Texas. Reba McEntire, Kelly Clarkson, Cee-Lo and Martina McBride were among the guests at the fete.