A complicated division. Branch Michelle AND Patrick Carney called it quits in August 2022 after three years of marriage – and their split got off to a rocky start.
The singer of “Everywhere” made the news known through a statement, telling Us Weekly: “To say I’m totally devastated doesn’t even begin to describe how I feel about myself and my family. The rug has been completely pulled out from under me and now I have to figure out how to move forward. With such small children, I ask for privacy and kindness.”
However, hours before announcing the split, Branch was arrested for domestic assault and taken into custody in the couple’s hometown of Nashville. The “Goodbye to You” singer was later released on $1,000 bail and her next court date was set for November 2022.
The Arizona native also posted a since-deleted tweet accusing the Black Keys drummer of cheating on her while she was at home with their youngest child, daughter Willa, who was born in February 2022. The pair also have son Rhys, who arrived in August 2018. (Branch also shares daughter Owen, born in August 2005, with ex-husband Teddy Landau.)
Carney has not publicly responded to his partner’s claims about the alleged affair, and a representative for the musician did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Eagle Studio Audio founder and Grammy winner met in 2015 while Carney was producing Branch’s album Hopeless romantic and they started dating soon after. “Pat said, ‘I remember seeing you on MTV in the early 2000s and I thought you were really cool,'” Branch recalled to Billboard in March 2017. “It’s like, why couldn’t we have just met in our twenties? It would have saved us so much pain!”
Carney proposed to the “All You Wanted” singer on her birthday in 2017, and the pair married two years later in a ceremony held at the Marigny Opera House in New Orleans. “Favorite moment of 2019”, Dega wrote on Instagram at the time alongside a photo from the big day. “Hands down✨❤️.”
A year later, the “Leave the Pieces” musician revealed that she suffered a miscarriage. “Just as we were rounding third and heading home (A baseball metaphor?! I know.) 2020 was like, ‘nah, I’m not done yet,'” she wrote via Instagram in December 2020. “December decided to really end we leave with a bang! No, literally. A bomb exploded in downtown Nashville yesterday. And to further twist a dagger in my heart, I experienced my first miscarriage (oh! Motherf–ker!).
Branch and the Rentals artist welcomed daughter Willa just over a year later.
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