The messy split between country singer Zac Brown and his ex-wife Kelly Yazdi took a new twist on Tuesday when she posted more than a dozen photos on Instagram disparaging his new relationship as a “repeat” of theirs and calling on the singer to drop a lawsuit he filed against her.
The legal troubles started in May 2024 when Brown accused Yazdi of defaming him with false accusations and violating a confidentiality agreement she signed when she posted a poem on Instagram that, according to the lawsuit, many people would believe was about Brown. The poem is about a “rebirth,” in which Yazdi wrote about a love that is “conditional” and “disguised,” but really about “control.”
“Projections. Gaslighting. Threatening. Stonewalling. Those are the ingredients of narcissistic abuse,” Yazdi wrote.
In legal filings, Yazdi, who was married to Brown from August 2023 to December 2023, said that a few months after she married Brown, he began complaining about her posting modeling photos on Instagram and shortly after that, he announced on a Zoom meeting that he wanted a divorce. Brown also said in the documents that the poem she posted on Instagram is about “love, life and relationships” and argued it never mentioned Brown or any confidential information.
And Brown alleged that Yazdi, who at one point handled social media for his company, also forwarded “highly sensitive documents” concerning Brown and his business to her personal email in an attempt to “use them as leverage against” him.
Yazdi also alleged that Brown used their “private” wedding video in a music video, replacing her with a lookalike model, who, Yazdi said, was depicted as “engaging in inappropriate behavior.” In Brown’s music video, which was released in February 2024, the model is seen dancing and taking pills.
Brown said the footage with the model was shot in 2018 and, according to the lawsuit, Yazdi wanted footage from their wedding video to be included in Brown’s music video for his song “Beautiful Drug.”
The lawsuit remains ongoing, and a trial has been scheduled for September.
“Why this guy just won’t leave me alone, I don’t know,” Yazdi said in a July TikTok video. “This has been an incredibly difficult and expensive and emotional journey that I never asked for and I hope no one else ever has to go through, but I have to stand up for myself and for anyone who has ever felt controlled or silenced by someone with more power and resources.”
On Tuesday, Yazdi took a new approach to tell her side of the story, ditching poetry and instead using “storytelling through imagery,” she wrote on Instagram, in which she posted a series of side-by-side photos of her and Brown next to Brown and his new fiancée, jewelry designer Kendra Scott. The couple announced their engagement last week, sharing the details with People magazine. Other coverage followed on the timeline of their relationship, the engagement ring and whether they plan to move into Scott’s $6.7 million Austin, Texas, home.
“Everyday I wake up to some carefully crafted PR story highlighting the ‘perfect love story’, yet I’m still being buried in legal fees and told that if I even try to tell my side of the story, that somehow I’m in the wrong…,” Yazdi wrote Tuesday on Instagram.
In her Instagram post, Yazdi wrote “Rinse and Repeat,” showing Brown doing the same things with Scott that he once did with Yazdi, like playing music on guitar to both of them, taking them fishing and even using the same jewelry designer for both of their engagement rings.
In a statement to HuffPost, a representative for Brown said it’s a “shame” Yazdi has “attempted to overshadow a joyful milestone with desperate fiction for clicks.”
“Ms. Yazdi’s comments are categorically false and a work of pure imagination,” the representative said. “We won’t be dragged into the circus of her TikTok theatrics. Her public attacks seem to escalate in step with a desire for attention, followers and money, but the facts will speak for themselves in court this September.”
Yazdi told HuffPost that she didn’t have any additional comments and said her Instagram post “speaks for itself.”
Meanwhile, Yazdi said in a TikTok video that she’s looking forward to their dispute getting a public hearing before a jury.
“I look forward to the opportunity to prove that what I learned during my personal relationship with Zac cannot be silenced and to finally put all of this behind me,” Yazdi said in the TikTok video.
