Whenever a couple announces their breakup, they never forget to mention that they will still stay friends, maintain mutual respect for each other, and wish one another nothing but the best.
However, we all know how that goes because as soon as the divorce negotiations get messy, the mutual respect and friendship are the first to disappear. That’s exactly what’s currently going on between the renowned country music star Zac Brown and his soon-to-be ex-wife Kelly Yazdi.
Zac Brown Said ‘I Took the Steps Necessary to Protect My Family’
Recently, Zac filed for a temporary restraining order against Kelly over a mere Instagram post. He said, “I took the steps necessary to protect my family.”
According to Zac, Kelly’s two IG posts violated their confidentiality agreement.
He added, “After much deliberation, I took the steps necessary to enforce an agreement between us to maintain personal and business affairs in confidence and to protect my family from online harassment and speculation.”
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Kelly is yet to pull down her posts after the courts in Georgia, Fulton County, granted the order, but this just moved things from bad to worse. She did not take this lying down because, according to her, her Instagram posts had nothing to do with the employee confidentiality agreement they signed in August 2022.
Kelly Yazdi’s Cryptic Poem
One of the two Instagram posts in question was a poem that likely portrayed Zac as a narcissist and revealed more details of Zac’s hostility in their brief marriage. Zac wanted to control her, including what to wear, images to put on Instagram, the people she was allowed to talk to, and much worse, Zac did not want her to model anymore. She expressed all this in the form of a poem.
The poem doesn’t mention Zac’s name and only refers to the person being talked about as “he,” but somehow Zac felt he was the one being targeted.
Zac Brown’s Lawyer Filed Restraining Order
According to the restraining order that Zac’s attorneys filed, it indicated that Kelly was out for revenge on Zac Brown and his company.
It asked the judge to forbid Kelly from “[making] any public statement or disclosing any confidential or private information in violation of the terms of Ms. Yazdi’s Employee and Confidentiality Agreements.”
Once the restraining order was granted, Kelly responded. She took to TikTok and wrote, “No one – not even Zac Brown with all of his money, power, celebrity, and lawyers – may silence my right to freely express myself through art or, although I have to date declined to do so publicly, to speak about the circumstances of our pending divorce.”
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She also added that she intended to respond swiftly and robustly to his meritless complaint that the publication of two poems on her personal social media account divulged any ‘confidential information’ about his business, much less authorize a court to enjoin her from speaking about matters in her personal life that have nothing to do with her brief former work for the Zac Brown Collective, Inc.
Is Zac the One Actually Tainting Kelly Yazdi’s Image?
If anything, according to Kelly’s statement, Zac is the one who has been tainting her image and mocking her since they announced their separation.
She wrote, “It is beyond ironic that Zac’s first act after filing an unnecessary public divorce lawsuit was to release a music video that deliberately mocked our wedding party from only a few months before — including a false and defamatory caricature obviously intended to be me and hurt me – followed by a second unnecessary and legally meritless public lawsuit and press release, yet he now claims his ‘only hope’ is that we show each other ‘mutual respect’ by keeping ‘private matters private’ as we negotiate the terms of our divorce.”
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Zac, on the other hand, still insists that the restraining order was necessary to protect his family from online harassment and speculation, and to maintain personal and business affairs.
“My only hope is for us to keep private matters private and to move forward with the mutual respect we had agreed to show one another when we parted ways,” he said.
The ongoing legal battle and public statements between Zac Brown and Kelly Yazdi reveal the complexities of their breakup. It’s far from the amicable split they initially portrayed. It’s currently a messy and public unraveling of their relationship.
Fans and observers can only watch and wait to see how this high-profile divorce will ultimately play out.
