LeAnn Rimes' sordid affair with Eddie Cibrian that destroyed two marriages
LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibran were both married to other people when they fell in love on set on a movie and began an affair
LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian have been married for nine years and are blissfully happy.
But their romance began in scandal as both of them were married when they met; LeAnn to backup dancer Dean Sheremet and Eddie to TV star Brandi Glanville.
The couple met when they filmed a made-for-television movie for Lifetime called Northern Lights in 2009 and began an affair.
In her book Drinking & Tweeting and other Brandi Blunders, the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star revealed how she found out her husband was cheating.
She wrote that she went out for dinner with them and Dean and LeAnn and Eddie were all over each other.
Brandi said: T"his woman, whom I had just met, spent more time flirting with my husband than acknowledging her own.
"And Dean, bless his heart, ate his sushi, laughed at all the right moments, and pretended that he didn't see exactly what was in front of him."
Later that night the group went out for karaoke and Brandi claims LeAnn got Eddie onstage to sing with her instead of her own husband.
She continued: "I looked at Eddie’s smiling face on that stupid, low-rent stage and leaned over to Dean and said, 'You know they're f**king, right?'"
Brandi says Dean didn’t respond – which "said just about everything I needed to know, he knew it too, but like me, didn’t have any evidence besides that gut feeling, and he chose to ignore it for now."
Then LeAnn got cake on her top and asked Eddie if he wanted to lick it off in front of Brandi, which she said was the final straw.
"'What the f**k do you two have going on? Do you two have something you'd like to tell me?'" she asked them
LeAnn told her she was just "being silly" and Eddie managed to convince her that nothing was going on.
But in March 2009 pictures emerged of LeAnn and Eddie kissing when they went out for dinner.
At the time Brandi and Eddie's sons Mason and Jake were just five and two-years-old respectively.
Announcing their split that July, Brandi said: "Eddie and I have decided to take some time apart.
"I want to do what is best for our children [Mason and Jake]. Eddie and LeAnn deserve each other."
The divorce was finalized in October 2010.
Around the same time it was reported that LeAnn and Dean had been separated for a while but were working on their relationship.
Their divorce was finalised in June of that year.
Eddie and LeAnn got engaged just months later in December 2010 and were married the following April.
LeAnn and Brandi would continue to feud for years over the cheating scandal.
In August 2012 Leanne checked into rehab and Brandi called her "unstable" and said she didn't want her to be alone with her children.
She also later predicted that they LeAnn and Eddie's marriage wouldn't last.
In April 2018 it seemed the feud had finally come to an end, with Brandi tweeting: "The three of us sat and talked for hours hashed everything out and the feud with @leannrimes Eddie and I is over."
But the drama was reignited earlier this year when Brandi accused the couple of keeping her kids away from her.
She tweeted in March: "It's very crazy that I've been alone for this entire week and I can't be with my children because it happens not to be my week in our divorce settlement.
"I think that this is a time with special circumstances and I should be able to be with them. …
"This is when people's true colors show @eddiecibrian @leannrimes how truthful are your words??!!"
LeAnn later said she had no regrets about what happened between them all.
She told ABC News: "It happens every day to so many people.
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