LeAnn Rimes Opens Up About Affair With Eddie Cibrian

By PopEater Staff Posted Jun 3rd 2010 08:10PM

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.

Tags: eddie cibrian, LeAnn Rimes

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Friday 04 June

By ricochet

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...until he does it to you too, sweetie-pie, and he will.

Saturday 05 June

By JT

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So, she says she "Takes responsibility" for the things she did....yet,she also says she has no regrets....and since the definition of REGRET is "to feel sorrow or remorse for an act"

Then clearly she is not taking responsibility for her actions, which apparently included...
A) Cheating on her husband

B) Lying to everyone in denying that there was an affair

and as I recall, at the time she was going through all of that, she took the time to mention that she had consulted with God about her decision before making it, as if God would be likely to encourage her to break her marriage vows.

By pam

Yeah it's so nice she takes responsibility for breaking up someones marriage. I guess she was more important then his two sons. Fame and fortune over family.....that's what's wrong with this world. Why would someone want to be involved with a married person with children? Leave it alone there are lots of fish in the sea if you want to cheat. SHAME ON YOU LeAnn.

By mahafakir

LeAnn is still thinking of screwing her lover a year after the affair ended. I think the affair is still going on even if it is in her mind. That is what she thinks off all the time. It is not entirely her fault. The hubbies and bfs start taking things for granted and stop paying little attentions to the mate and begin to take things for granted. Lovers, on the other hand, start paying attention and really making an effort to charm their lovers. I'm not surprised that LeAnn is still thinking of the inytercouurse she was having in her affair.

By krazzicraig

hello

By lyn

LeAnn:
If he cheats with you, he'll cheat on you!

By dugandean

By sally

So sad that both of these immature people do not realize that it is a very high likelyhood that one of them will cheat on the other and probably within a short time. What was missing was probably within themselves and not in their partners. Sad Ms Rimes does not seem to care about taking the father away from his sons all so she can feel the rush of lust and infatuation..
why are these people idolized?

By Jeannie

I don't believe for a minute that she's sorry for anything she's done. I don't like her like I don't like Julia Roberts - & not only because of their possibly being homewreckers. And does LeAnn have to smile all the bloody time? It makes her look like even more of an unrepentant b!!!h. It's even worse than Kristen Stewart & Ashley Greene not smiling at all.

By LML

LeAnn never thought what she was doing was ok? Eventually, when you are an adult, it is important to say NO to your emotional or sexual urges when they are hurting others. You have to put yourself and your feelings last and put the children of the man you are "in love with" first. Apparently LeAnn has not reached that point in her life where she can self evaluate honestly. Neither has her boyfriend Eddie. Sure, everyone is all happy now and moving on with their lives. But do not think for one minute that Eddie's children won't remember that their father and his girlfriend ruined their family.

By magusap

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WE MAKE MISTAKES and for a person to admit his/her mistakes is a bigger person. Because he/she took responsibility for their actions. I would rather be with a honest person that a liar...

By sbrockchick

So would you not consider someone who goes behind your back and has an affair a liar just because they admit to it a year later after they have been caught on film and exploited to the world as the true deceivers they are?

By Donna

Any woman, or man, who cheats with a married person, who has young children is nothing more than a home wrecker.
And she admits she knew better.. But she kept it up..
Theres some names that do fit her, but I cant write them here.

By sandy

I can understand. Been in the same situation.

By Bonbon

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They fell in love, nothing you can do about it, who cares.

By Teri

a cheat is a cheat is a cheat is a cheat and will always be a cheat. cheat on your spouse with another married person and expect that if you two marry then you will be cheated on by each other. way to go people, way to go! honor vows??? morals??? respect??? hogwash to the lot of it.

and so the world sadly turns.

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What a load of garbage

By Mary

Wow cant believe she has the nerve to say ..that she has moved on and hope there is forgivness.??? say what .. girl you moved on before hubby was even an X ...How do you forgive a person who says Yeah I was wrong but Im not sorry ..... These 2 will cheat on each other its only a matter of time... the min. they arent "happy" they will look to someelse to make them happy .....just like this time.....So sad for the kids involved....

By Karine

Amazing to see the self righteous turs here judging another human being. By my experience those are the worst kind! I ma happy for LeAnne and her man :) Those being so negaive probable don't have anyone in thier life. Who could stang being with "tarts/turds" like you .... It really sucks to be you.

By Marsha

Whatever Karine. My guess is that you're not married and if you are or have been, you have no clue of what your marriage vows meant and probably just went through the motions. Or either you're a cheater or you haven't been cheated on yet.

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