Kelsea Ballerini clung to her Outer Banks boyfriend Chase Stokes’ fame as they stepped out in Los Angeles on Wednesday night.
The sizzlingly handsome couple attended a private party four days before the Grammys, where Kelsea is nominated for best country album.
Her latest EP Rolling Up The Welcome Mat was released last Valentine’s Day and contained material focused on her recent divorce from Morgan Evans.
During her latest sighting, Kelsea walked arm in arm with her handsome new man as they stepped out for the night in Los Angeles.
She gave away a hint of her toned midriff in an aquamarine crop top and a matching floor-length skirt that fluttered as she walked.
Kelsea Ballerini clung to her Outer Banks boyfriend Chase Stokes’ fame as they stepped out in Los Angeles on Wednesday night
The sizzling hot couple attended a private party four days before the Grammys, where Kelsea is nominated for best country album
Meanwhile, Chase wore a plaid suit that fit perfectly to highlight his sculpted arms, paired with a white T-shirt with a seductively low neckline.
The couple’s outing comes two months after Kelsea candidly confessed that sex felt “performative” for her — until her steamy romance with Chase.
Kelsea was previously married to her fellow Australian Morgan Evans, whom she started dating when she was just 22 years old.
In the wake of her 2022 divorce, Kelsea opened up to Chase in January 2023 after sliding into his DMs while “drunk with my friends at a bar.”
Last November, almost a year into their relationship, Kelsea appeared on Call her daddy and lifted the curtain on their sizzling sex life.
She beamedly revealed that she “had a good time” with Chase and has finally discovered why lovemaking is “a connector for people.”
When host Alex Cooper asked Kelsea about her sex life, she jokingly reacted with shock and turned to the camera and told her mother to stop watching.
On a more serious note, Kelsea shared that sex was “something that I always felt was very bad—like my experience with it was very performative, and just like for the other person.”
Her latest EP Rolling Up The Welcome Mat was released last Valentine’s Day and featured material focused on her recent divorce from Morgan Evans; the couple is pictured in 2019
As a mischievous smile appeared on her face, Kelsea said that “it doesn’t have to be like this anymore,” adding, “I’m having a good time.”
Before sex with Chase, she “didn’t understand how it could be a real connector in a relationship.” I never understood that,” Kelsea admitted.
“I always thought it was just something you did because that’s who you do it with, you know? And no, no, no, it’s like… I, now I realize, it’s a connector for people.’
She said that “the security it gives you is so beautiful,” adding that “then you get to know yourself, and then you think, it’s a whole new world.”
Elsewhere in the interview, she praised Chase as “the most emotionally intelligent man I’ve ever met in my life.” I keep telling him he’s a man written by a woman.’
Kelsea explained that “he was raised by his mother and has a really close bond with his sister – like he’s so in tune with his emotions and not afraid to be vulnerable.”
She and Morgan made their divorce public in August 2022, less than five years after their wedding at the luxurious Esperanza Resort in Cabo San Lucas.
They finalized their divorce in November — less than a week before they both walked the red carpet separately at the CMA Awards.
In the wake of her 2022 divorce, Kelsea opened up to Chase in January 2023 after sliding into his DMs while “drunk with my friends at a bar”; the couple is pictured in October
While on the red carpet, Morgan opened up Access that “one of the hardest” aspects of a divorce “is how lonely it feels.”
Following his divorce from Kelsea, Morgan released an emotional song called Over For You, in which he expressed his feelings about the final stages of his marriage.
“I would have searched the world for you, taken a night flight to be that shoulder for you, and I would have let you go if that’s what you wanted,” he sang.
“How many times have you said you loved me when it wasn’t true?” he asked plaintively in the text. “I’m just wondering, how long has it been over for you?”
Kelsea fired back last February, saying she and Morgan broke up multiple times and had to endure “years of relationship counseling” as the marriage fell apart.
The couple’s outing comes two months after Kelsea candidly admitted that sex felt “performative” for her — until her steamy romance with Chase; November in the photo
During an appearance on Call Her Daddy, she admitted that she had “slept on the couch many a night” due to a “sense of disconnect” between them.
‘We hadn’t seen each other, there was a lack of effort to see each other. “I started to get angry because every time we saw each other, I felt like I was carrying that burden, and I was tired,” the Tennessee native said.
In a fiery response to his divorce song, she marveled: “While he’s releasing a song about blindness, he’s taking half the house he didn’t pay for.”
She wondered, “How was I married to this person for so long and had no idea that that piece of character was hidden in that person?”
Morgan replied on Instagram: “It’s really sad for me to see this person, who I’ve spent so much of my life with and loved with all my heart, saying things that are not reality and that disregard what really happened.’