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Carly Pearce has no problem being honest about the lowest point in her life. The Grammy-winning singer and Michael Ray’s former wife revealed that she knew the night she got married, she had made the wrong decision. The “Every Little Thing” singer discussed her “hot and heavy lust” with Bunnie XO on her Dumb Blonde podcast.

She married country singer Michael Ray in 2019. Now, the Kentucky native has been open about their divorce earlier this year. “The night I got married, I knew I shouldn’t have,” the “Should’ve Known Better” singer shared during the episode, but at the time, “I was ready for this and ready for that and thinking, ‘Oh my gosh, this is the right thing for me to do.”

The Kentucky native and the “Think a Little Less” singer got married in 2019. It all happened quickly, but at the time, the 30-year-old felt she was making the right choice. “I thought he was so cute. I’d heard he’s the nicest guy in the world. I invited him to my No. 1 party for Every Little Thing. Looking back on it, it was a hot and heavy lust. It wasn’t love. It was just passionate,” she said.

She thought she had made the right decision to marry him, but knew almost immediately. “I got married to go the distance,” Pearce told Bunnie on the podcast. “When I married him, it was for the right reasons. When we got married, we didn’t have real conversations. We didn’t really know about each other. We were kind of living this life that wasn’t really reality.” However, now, they both know they should’ve done things differently. “We could have built on the right foundation, but we didn’t know how to do that, and we didn’t know how to work on that.”

Pearce knew on the night of her wedding that it was the wrong decision. “I knew the night I got married that I shouldn’t have. The whole wedding weekend. I had the sign, you know, but you know it was not what it was cracked up to be,” she said. Despite having these feelings, she did not feel she rushed into it. She continued, “It wasn’t something that I did like super-fast and didn’t even think about it, and all of a sudden boom. I did not do that.”

When speaking about her split with Ray, Carly said, “COVID helped because that allowed me to deal with that in private.” She got divorced from the singer in 2020. “I would have stayed in it longer if I could have avoided it and not had to. … I was embarrassed when it happened … and I had shame around that and was heartbroken.”

PEARCE AND RAY FILE FOR DIVORCE

In June 2020, Pearce announced she filed for divorce, citing “irreconcilable differences” in court documents. They wed in October 2019, but the divorce paperwork showed that Pearce had been permitted to get divorced after only eight months of marriage.

The “Talk of the Town” singer got divorced from Ray earlier this year. While she has not explained exactly what went wrong, she admitted that she soon realized the relationship was not going to work. “It wasn’t what I signed up for. It wasn’t what I wanted it to be. It just wasn’t the marriage that I knew I deserved. I knew that very quickly. Plenty happened to where it was very clear to me this was not, this just wasn’t a marriage.”

Pearce did not offer any new details about the divorce, but she and Bunnie did discuss some of the rumors swirling about the split, including that Ray had an affair. While she never directly addressed those claims, the singer admitted that it was hard to hear rumors. “People have all their opinions, and, at first, that was so hard for me because I was like, ‘That’s not true, that’s not true, that’s not true. What he’s saying isn’t true.’ But, at the end of the day, my friends who walked that with me know. My parents know, and God knows, and that is enough. It’s enough.”

The divorce was difficult, but it forced her to learn some lessons about herself. She said. “This is the season of me learning my self-worth, and it took everything coming to ashes to get there. I am in the happiest season of my life.”

CARLY PEARCE MENTIONS DIVORCE ON NEW SONG

Pearce had another single before her and Ray’s marriage ended. The singer penned the new song on their road to the altar, feeling like they were ‘going home.’ She felt she had her ‘own personal rush hour,’ but at the time, it didn’t seem like it. “When we wrote the song, I didn’t think I was going to get married,” she said. “I thought he was such a gentleman, and we would keep dating. I thought it was a form of longevity in itself that I got to keep dating this guy, and he just kept putting up with me and still wanted to do life with me. When we wrote the song, we were like, ‘Oh my gosh, I feel like we are on our way home,’” she said.