His marriage to Renee Zellweger may have only lasted four months, but it didn't end because Kenny Chesney is allegedly gay.
The country music star sat down for an interview with "60 Minutes" and cleared up the rumors that the "fraud" listed on the application for an annulment was not because he is gay.
Chesney, who married Zellweger in May 2005 in the Virgin Islands, said that his marriage really ended because he didn't know how to make it work.
He said, "It's not true. Period. Maybe I should have come out and said, 'No, I'm not (gay),' but I didn't want to draw any more attention to it. I didn't have to prove to anybody that I wasn't (gay). I didn't feel like I really did."
Listing "fraud" as the reason for the relationships demise caused the rumor mills to go into overdrive.
However, the singer says it was merely an umbrella term. He continued, "We thought the least harmful (stated reason) was fraud because it (is) kind of broad ... doesn't specify. And boy ... we were wrong. The only fraud that was committed was me thinking that I knew what it was like ... that I really understood what it was like to be married, and I really didn't."
Chesney has no regrets about marrying the Oscar winner, however he admits that the marriage could have ended differently.
He said, "Not at all. Not one bit. Even though I'd sit here and say I wish we'd gotten divorced instead of all that annulment stuff, and saved me a lot of public humiliation ...I still don't have any regrets. I loved her, you know? And it was real."
Both stars have remained single since their relationship ended.
