Following her third cut up from Chase Stokes, Kelsea Ballerini supported a social media publish that mentioned shady relationship habits.
Ballerini, 32, commented on an Instagram video shared by fellow nation musician Ashley Cooke on Tuesday, February 10, that featured the textual content, “Whiskey nights wandering eyes make messes / hiding telephones “idks” make questions / cities discuss and the reality begins spreading / don’t you realize crossing traces makes Xs.”
Ballerini’s remark learn, “Mmmhhhmmm,” to which Cooke, 28, responded, “You get it.”
The net change comes simply days after Us Weekly confirmed that Ballerini and the Outer Banks stars, 33, had ended their on-off romance as soon as once more. “Kelsea and Chase have damaged up once more. It occurred simply the opposite day,” a supply completely informed Us on Friday, February 6, including that Ballerini is “taking it higher” than she took the pair’s earlier breakups.
Chase Stokes’ new cryptic social media messages have followers pondering his relationship with Kelsea Ballerini is over once more. “Don’t consider the media,” Stokes, 33, wrote through his Instagram Story on Thursday, November 20, elevating eyebrows amongst his followers. “I’m blocked, I did nothing mistaken.” The Outer Banks star added, “Sorry” with a crimson coronary heart emoji. (…)
The insider added that Stokes “nonetheless isn’t prepared to surrender” on the connection, nonetheless Ballerini was formally “performed.”
The affirmation got here after followers of the pair seen on Friday that Ballerini had unfollowed Stokes on Instagram regardless of him nonetheless following her.
The duo had reconciled for simply 37 days following their second breakup, asserting on New Yr’s Eve in 2025 that they’d rekindled their romance.
Ballerini posted an Instagram photograph of the pair kissing and added the caption, “Messy yr for the center, messy yr for the skin coming in, messy yr for the best way it grew to become an out of our arms portrayal of it. However what I’ll say, and all I actually care to share indefinitely with my private life anymore, is that I actually love love. I consider in it, I consider in him, and I consider in breaking patterns. Now go kiss your particular person and cease speculating.”
Kelsea Ballerini and Chase Stokes‘ practically three-year relationship got here to a rocky finish, a supply near the previous couple completely tells Us Weekly. “It was a tough cut up,” the insider shares. “They’d been arguing quite a bit not too long ago, and their communication wasn’t nice within the final month. They have been each touring a lot and (…)
For his half, Stokes mirrored on the reboot through his personal Instagram account on the time. “One thing I’ve discovered this yr: don’t reap the benefits of essentially the most stunning issues that in 33 years of life are fleeting,” he wrote. “Take accountability, study from errors. Lean into love and say it typically. 2026 my yr of progress, my yr of fact. Beginning right here, beginning now. Joyful new years.”
Stokes and Ballerini’s first breakup occurred in September 2025 after they dated for greater than two years, and the second occurred in November 2025 after they acquired again collectively one month prior.
Us Weekly reported on Monday, February 9, that the pair might by no means regain the spark they initially shared. “Ever since they cut up the primary few instances, the dynamic completely shifted and it was by no means the identical,” a supply completely informed Us on the time. “One thing felt a bit extra off this time round, virtually like they have been forcing issues once more.”
The insider added that Stokes and Ballerini “by no means actually acquired again to the way it was at first” earlier than elaborating additional.
“Kelsea’s profession has been extra demanding not too long ago, and had triggered distance, which was a problem at one level,” the supply stated. “The attract and pleasure of the connection wore off and there have been additionally too many ongoing belief points that Kelsea can’t get previous. She didn’t totally belief him, which sucked.”
Ballerini was stated to have been the particular person to have ended the connection this time round. “It wasn’t dramatic, simply felt like she knew this wasn’t perpetually and didn’t need to waste their time,” the insider detailed.