LeAnn Rimes Opens Up About Affair With Eddie Cibrian
After almost a year of silence,
LeAnn Rimes opened up to
PEOPLE about her relationship with Eddie Cibrian, her divorce from Dean Sheremet and how she never thought what she was doing "was okay."
Rimes and Sheremet
ended their 7-year marriage last year after news of her affair with Cibrian broke. Cibrian was also married at the time; he and model Brandi Glanville married in 2002 and have two sons together. They too filed for divorce last year. Rimes and Cibrian are currently in a committed relationship.
"I take responsibility for everything I've done," LeAnn tells PEOPLE. "I hate that people got hurt. But I don't regret the outcome. It was very emotionally driven. I never once thought what I was doing was OK. I was out of balance. My marriage was out of balance. There was something missing. The hardest thing to hear is someone call either of us a home wrecker because we didn't walk into a perfectly happy marriage and ruin it. I don't know what the future holds, but I know it holds Eddie. I'm really happy. I've moved on, and I hope there can be some forgiveness and acceptance."
Back in 2009, Cibrian tried to fight back against claims that he was having an affair with Rimes after photos surfaced of the two kissing during a date at a Laguna Beach, California restaurant. The two were caught on film from the restaurant's security cameras.
"It is a fabricated story that is using random snapshots as connective tissue to create a scandalous relationship," Cibrian said in a statement obtained by Access Hollywood (via
PEOPLE.)
At that time, Rimes wrote on her official blog, "This is a difficult time for me and my loved ones, but I appreciate all your continued support. I would like to assure all of you that this is a place for you to hear things directly from me and as you all know, not everything in our lives is always black and white . Have faith."
Eddie Cibrian's wife accused Rimes of stalking him. "LeAnn is a stalker. She refuses to leave us alone -- it is shameful and scary. People are going to say it takes two to tango and I get that, but at some point LeAnn needs to stop asking him to dance," Brandi Granville told
Usmagazine.com last June.
Glanville told
Us Weekly, "He has been an absentee father... Eddie's displays of poor taste have hurt our two children."
The divorce was a positive step for the whole family, Glanville told E! adding, "It's just over for me. We're both happy. This is going to be good."
Rimes reveals that she and Cibrian became friends while shooting the made-for-TV movie 'Northern Lights' and it wasn't until many months later that their relationship "tipped over."
"It was very emotionally driven," says Rimes. "I never once thought what I was doing was okay."
Sheremet and Rimes attempted to fix their marriage after news of her affair broke, but the pair finally concluded, "It wasn't a marriage that fulfilled either one of us." Sheremet is currently a chef at Nobu in New York City and is dating photographer Sarah Silver.
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LOL...great "apology"...she takes responsibility for what she has done and now everything is oakey dokey...are you going to rehab, Ms. Rimes?
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I'd shine her behind.
What a homewrecker!! They both suck. She's a piece of trash. What a pig!!
Don't be too quick to judge... the more we judge the more we bring things upon ourselves to experience in order to lessen out judgments. Be careful.
they tried to make her go to rehb but she said no no no
she's disgusting
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As long as she is happy then everything is ok, right. Stupid selfish cow. There were children who got hurt.
she has a horse face.
Be serious. She is not. I saw them a few weeks ago at a very humble restaurant in a suburb of LA. She looked me into the eye, our tables were accross from each other. She was full of fear. I felt bad for her. He was all over her. How could a woman in love turn that down? Forget it...I saw it. They are crazy in love.
I respected her and smiled at her. She had my support-
One of the most in love couples I have ever seen in person. And I grew up in Hollywood...
you are so right! and for them to be shown in People Magazine, shame on them.............And Eddie too! Stupid womanizer with 2 beautiful children involved and a beautiful wife too! What does this cow have that she doesn't? Nothing I can see!
Seriously folks, things happen. Things that aren't planned and people sometimes fall in love with someone they never planned to fall in love with. Often times they don't even realize it until it's too late. That's just the reality. People fall in and out of love all the time. So I'm happy for her, for both of them. Obviously their marriages were not fulfilling for whatever reasons and life is much too short to be unhappy. Good for them for deciding they deserved to be happy and that their ex's deserved to move on with someone who would love them the way they should.
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Are you kidding me? You must be a cheater as well. What ever happened to morals and values. He has children and it is about time everyone stops saying and thinking that selfish behavior is OK. It isn't. When you marry you say for better or for worse, it is a promise not a until something better somes along. Give me a break. Maybe they both should have thought about other people instead of themselves. When his children grow up with anger and resentment, and have a poor outlook on relationships they can than themselves and the new people they are with. As statistics have proven they have a very small chance of working out anyway. Maybe an education in morals would have been a better choice.
Nice, Marina. Let me guess - you did the same thing?
Seriously, to protect the integrity of my marriage and someone else's family, I remove myself from the situation. Simple, and maybe difficult...but honorable.
The point is that their ex's weren't "ex's" yet.
How much of that did you say to your husband first?
While I agree people fall out of love, you should dissolve the marriage (or relationship) FIRST before you go on with another person..it's called respect!!!!
I know! Why don't YOU explain it to all the children affected??!!
I think its funny that everyone tries to be so righteous... Im married and never cheated on my husband but Im not going to look down on someone because I dont know what that person was/is going through. You cant judge someone based on your own morals or values, and you cant understand something until it happens to you. People really need to get over themselves, if these two were regular people no one would give a damn but since its on the news everyone thinks they know everything about life and marriage. Please!
sooo obviously you have cheated too!!!