LeAnn Rimes on Her Affair: I Know Why I Did It

By Tracey Harrington McCoy Posted Apr 21st 2011 09:45PM

It was just over two years ago that LeAnn Rimes was caught cheating on then-husband Dean Sheremet with her 'Northern Lights' co-star Eddie Cibrian. And after weathering the storm that followed, Rimes admits she learned a lot.

"I know I didn't do it the right way," Rimes says in "Backstory: LeAnn Rimes," a new special airing Sunday on the Great American Country channel [via UsMagazine.com.] "I didn't have the tools to know how to do it the right way, how to let go the right way. I'd never been taught that," she confesses.

The 28-year-old continues: "I have the strength [now] but I didn't at the time... So, it got really messy, but I have learned a lot from that. And I'm not glad it happened, but I know why it did."

And though Rimes said she learned from her mistakes, she does think there is a double standard when it comes to men and women cheating. "[Country music] has such a double standard. You know, Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash and all these guys. God knows what they did back in the day? And if a woman did it, you never were accepted or forgiven. But if it was a guy, it was just their life... It's quite interesting to have to navigate those waters as a woman in this business."

Cibrian, 37, and Rimes got engaged earlier this year but haven't yet announced a wedding date.

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Thursday 21 April

By Stop it

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Everyone makes mistakes...let it go. She isn't saying "she wasn't taught how" to cheat. When you get married that young, especially now days, that's what happens.

Friday 22 April

By m

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Too young and innocent, not to know that cheating was wrong??

She was 26 when she cheated (2 years ago. She is now 28).

That is good enough age to have sense regarding right and wrong.

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And the statement:

"And if a woman did it, you never were accepted or forgiven. But if it was a guy, it was just their life... It's quite interesting to have to navigate those waters as a woman in this business."

Yes, whatever...... Just don't cheat, so you wouldn't need to concoct theories about justifying this bad behavior. "Men don't get blamed for it," is a very lame excuse.

By MIke

She is friggen HOT!!!!!! Her last hubby was a fanny bandit..no wonder why she left his lame butt..wish I had a turn with her..GORGEOUS

By ermy

So sick of hearing about this woman's affair. The why's, the who's, the where's. I don't care, why any one else does is beyond me. She is my top ten of I could care less about people. There are far more important matters to read about. Why is she "important" anyway?

By Blonde Ambition

Because she used to be a major star who's having trouble growing up. She even has plenty of fans left, apparently. Personally, I've always found her bratty.

By Gracie

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I find it hard to care about why she cheated. Not that I suggest cheating in a marriage, but it sure seems that when a woman cheats on a husband they are 'beaten up' over it considerably more than a man who cheats. When a man cheats on his wife, you often hear stories of how the wife must 'not have been this or that', or 'should have done this or that', as if a husband's cheating is somehow more justified than when a wife cheats. Rimes is a singer, not a poster child for marriage. Furthermore, how does anyone know whether or not her husband cheated on her and just didn't get caught or let on.

By exitar01

It would sound like hypocrisy except for the fact that women hold men to this standard they are not willing to abide themselves. So if you're a woman who harps on men for cheating but know yourself, even if you never admit it to another soul, that you were unfaithful then it makes you a hypocrit. If you ever cheated on anyone you knew you were in an exclusive relationship with them you are a hypocrit. I for one am tired of hearing women whining about a double standard when more women than me cheat on thier spouses.

By dcnashinsc

You must have missed the stories about Tiger and the pounding he took.

By Hmmm

I'd like to lick Leanne's Lime.

By john

hmmmmmmmmm you would probably lick anything and I mean anything. Leann wouldnt give you the time of day.

By Yankee

If they will cheat with you, they will cheat on you.

By Brian

I think what she meant by not having the right tools is that she didn't know how to ask for a divorce and move on, not that she didn't know how to cheat on her husband in the correct way. What she ended up doing is trying to make it work even though she was unhappy. This led to cheating. Having been there before, though not in a marriage, I know how that can feel.

I too have been in a situation where I was supremely unhappy and wanted to end the relationship but still actually loved the person even if I wasn't actually IN love with her, so I didn't want to hurt her and hurt the people around us and thought the best thing to do was stay and try and make it work. For me, the relationship was already over in my mind before I cheated, so it didn't feel like cheating. Yes, the right thing to do would have been to inform HER that the relationship was over before I slept with the other people, and I have to take responsibility for that, but it's hard to explain the ways your emotions are being tugged in different directions then.

And double standard? Yes. The only people who hate me are the woman and her closest loved ones. No one else even appeared to be mad at me. Yet I have seen so many other people villified simply because they have a 46th X-chromosome.

By Dennis

No sympathy for you here. What you did is a sin, plain and simple. Although you have destroyed that marriage you need to repent and ask God's forgiveness and ask Him to give you strength not to do it again so you won't destroy any other lives.

By mary

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Dennis, he said he wasn't in a marriage.

She's nothing but a cheating pig, with no self respect.

By Vicky

B**ls**t. Listen we can't help who we fall in love(or in like with). But, and this is a big BUT we should be able to help how we handle it. She was cruel to his ex- wife she flaunted it and CRINGE claimed their children as her own. Totally disrespectful.She should have kept a low profile and when all had settled maybe apologise privately and respectfully. That's what pisst me off about this whole thing. She should have been sympathetic and she wasn't. The woman is a b*tch. She just hates being called on it.

Sunday 24 April

By been there

They never do that, that would show they have some kind of respect for themselves. They don't or they would not have cheated in the first place.

Don't you know it is always someone elses fault. Why take resposiblity for your terrible behavior when you can so easily blame someone else.

I for one have been there, there is no excuse, most just don't want to get caught.

By narwhalmagic

she looks like an effing muppet.

By Ted

Yeah I know why you did it too, because you're a s1ut.

By Eddie

i think there is a word for that and it starts with a w and ends with an e

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