”Things started going south with my marriage. Narvel Blackstock, my manager and husband at the time — we got a divorce, and the shocker of it all was, there were four people who were taking care of all my business,” she explained.
”I had my production manager who left, I had my CEO who left, my manager and husband, and my father had died. So four men who were rock and pillars of my world were gone.”
Reba got a real wake-up call when her father and husband disappeared and she was forced to do things by herself.
”I started realizing how much water cost, and the electric bill, and all the things that was going on in my life,” she said “I made the money, I brought it home. So it was a huge, huge change for me.”
Once again, Reba turned to God to deal with her heartache and sorrow.
”Everything that I was dealing with privately, personally — I had to run it all through God. I had to say, ‘OK big boy, I can’t handle this. This is way over my pay grade — I don’t know what to do. And I would wait, and He would guide me. And so without my faith, I have no idea where I would be or my career would be, at this time today,” she said.
Found love again
After a tough few years, Reba stared to find happiness again. For a while, she dated former businessman and wildlife photographer Anthony “Skeeter” Lasuzzo.
Reba met Lasuzzo on a visit to Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Some of Reba’s friends reportedly suggested that she contact him.
“[They said] we’ve got a friend who is a wildlife photographer, and he knows all the good places to go and he’ll drive you around,” Reba told CountryLiving.com. “And so he did, and we started dating about a month or two after that.”
The couple were caught on camera in some very cute moments and appeared together at the 2018 Grammy Awards.
”We’re totally in love — absolutely,” Reba said. “I wouldn’t put up with somebody for two years if I wasn’t in love with ’em!”
Unfortunately, it wasn’t to last. After two years together, the couple broke up.
“We still talk and we’re friends, but just decided to go our separate ways,” Reba told US Weekly.
Reba McEntire boyfriend in 2021
But it didn’t take long for Reba to find love again. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the famous country singer started dating actor Rex Linn, 64.
Rex is most famous for his role as Sgt. Frank Tripp on CSI: Miami. Reba and Rex fell in love in the fall of 2020.
“We’ve been talking during the pandemic. We had dinner with Rex, was it in January? And then February on, it was the COVID pandemic,” Reba said in her own podcast.
“We were talking, texting [and using] FaceTime — and that’s a really good way to get to know people. … It’s good to have a person to talk to, laugh with, get into subjects about what’s going on. Discussions about our past, our family, funny stories. Him being an actor, me being an actress. He’s very into my music, I’m very into his career. It’s just great getting to talk to somebody who I find very interesting, very funny, very smart and is interested in me too.”
As of today, Reba says she looking forward to what the future might bring.
”Whatever happens in the future, at this point, we’re very stable, and it’s been a good six months, and I look forward to having more things to look forward to,” she said.
We wish this country music legend all the happiness she deserves.
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