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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Friday 22 April

By gary

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LeAnne slyme

By Larry

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There's only one reason why women cheat- PENIS!!!

By MISS SWEET D

OK, GIRL, we all get it now, enough already, we know what you did to get him the thing is now can u keep him. so now can u just STFU!!!!! and go eat some veggies or better yet eat some cake, just go away

By lin

why is she still talking about this?

By Nanabowls300

I just don't like cheaters...and to say you didn't know the 'tools'? Cheating is wrong, children involved, what tools do you need. I don't like that we reward cheaters in the celebrity world either. I've always been border line with her music anyway, but now I just don't care for her & Eddie. Cheaters are cheaters & will always be CHEATERS...just sayin'

By Santa

The first thing you should learn is you don't bring other peoples names into it....What the hell did Johnny Cash and willie Nelson ever do to you.????

By Lexies mom

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As far as I'm concerned its done and over. So get on with ur lives. They don't have to explain anything..Its their business not any of ours!

By redhead

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not to be racist.. but by ur name u must be black or just trying to get a rise out of the whites.. but BLACKS are notorious cheats too and there are alot of them that are so called HO's too!

Monday 25 April

By signora byrd

We all know why she did it. Cause she's a ho, and he is a ho chaser!! End of story

Saturday 23 April

By patrick

Really? There's a "right way" to cheat on your spouse. Trailer trash...

By sher

She disgusts me. She didn't know it was wrong to go after a married man when she was still married herself? Give me a break. She's a selfish pig and so is he.

By Debbi

Hollywood is full of these stories. Tori and Dean broke up their previous marriages to marry each other. Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Fisher did the same. That's how it goes in Hollyweird.

By exitar01

New poll suggests that most women at one time or another cheat on thier spouses. Men cheat as well but men are not as good at hiding it as women are. The study also suggests that the children in the marriage may not be all by the one she said she's devoted to. So she is doing what most women do. Don't believe me about women cheating just type in do women cheat more than men and you'll find your answers there on one of a few dozen sites.

By j

Is this article set up for us to feel sympathy for her?
God will never bless any other "marriages" she enters into, because she is still in a covenant with her first husband until he dies.... This is pathetic

By Jenni

Well, I'm glad somebody finally said this. You couldn't be more correct!

By Nancy

What a line of b.s. - sounds like a "tool" is what got her in trouble in the first place - wtf is she talkin' about not having the right kind of "tools" - if you aren't happy, then leave BEFORE YOU CHEAT - she needs tools all right .... she needs maturity, forgiveness and humility .... these are valid tools.

By rev

"I know I didn't do it the right way,"... I really didn't know there was was RIGHT was to cheat :D

By Tena

I've heard it all now.

or..........DIVORCE before you cheat

By Lynn Fischer

Every skank, adulterer, cheater, betrayer more or less KNOWS why she/he did it. First, they have no integrity and they can't be trusted. What a stupid thing to say. Better to say nothing.

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