Kelsea Ballerini and Chase Stokes have pulled the plug on their relationship for the third time – simply weeks after asserting they had been again collectively.
“Kelsea and Chase have damaged up once more. It occurred simply the opposite day,” a supply completely tells Us Weeklynoting that Ballerini, 32, is “taking it higher” than she had within the earlier breakups.
Whereas the supply notes that Stokes “nonetheless isn’t prepared to surrender” on their relationship, Ballerini is offiicially “achieved.”
Eagle-eyed followers additionally seen on Friday, February 6, that Ballerini unfollowed Stokes, 33, on Instagram, though the Outer Banks star nonetheless seems to be following her.
Kelsea Ballerini and Chase Stokes have known as it quits once more after a quick reconciliation, Us Weekly can affirm. “It’s achieved,” a supply near the previous couple completely tells Us, revealing Ballerini, 32, and Stokes, 33, cut up “this previous week.” Issues between the Grammy nominee and Stokes have been “so rocky and poisonous,” the insider (…)
Us has reached out to Ballerini and Stokes’ reps for remark.
Ballerini and Stokes, who had been first romantically linked in January 2023 once they had been noticed on the School Soccer Playoff Nationwide Championship in Los Angeles, cut up for the primary time in September 2025.
On the time, Us confirmed that the couple had separated simply two days after Stokes shared a birthday message to honor Ballerini.
“Though you retain saying you’re not excited for 32, I’d say I’m lookin’ ahead to extra of this,” he wrote by way of Instagram on September 12, 2025. “Completely happy birthday, my love.”
They determined to present it one other shot two months later, and a number of sources completely confirmed to Us in November 2025 they had been again collectively.
“Kelsea and Chase are giving their relationship one other strive,” one insider instructed Us on the time. “There’s nonetheless lots of love there, in order that they fell again into it very naturally.”
This reconciliation was short-lived, nevertheless, and inside weeks, they had been damaged up once more.
The twists and turns of the duo’s on-off relationship continued in December 2025. Taking to social media to ring within the new yr, Ballerini and Stokes revealed they’d reunited once more.
Chase Stokes and Kelsea Ballerini.
(Picture by Distinctive Nicole/Getty Photographs for Netflix)“Messy yr for the center, messy yr for the skin coming in, messy yr for the way in which it grew to become an out of our fingers portrayal of it,” Ballerini wrote by way of her Instagram Story on December 31, 2025. “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 imagine in it, I imagine in him, and I imagine in breaking patterns. Now go kiss your particular person and cease speculating.”
Stokes shared an emotional put up of his personal to substantiate the couple’s reconciliation.
“One thing I’ve discovered this yr: don’t reap the benefits of probably the most lovely issues that in 33 years of life are fleeting,” he wrote. “Take accountability, study from errors. Lean into love and say it usually. 2026 my yr of development, my yr of reality. Beginning right here, beginning now. Completely happy new years ❤️.”
Kelsea Ballerini and Chase Stokes are “formally again collectively” after a yr filled with ups and downs. “This time, they’re transferring way more rigorously and deliberately,” a supply instructed Us Weekly completely. “After a really messy breakup, they took actual time aside to determine what they really needed.” The insider instructed Us that the (…)
Lower than per week in the past, Ballerini spoke to Leisure Tonight about getting again along with Stokes, insisting the scenario wasn’t as “dramatic” because it appeared.
“I like him a lot. We’ve been collectively for fairly some time now and achieved lots of life collectively and he was with me preparing right this moment and he’ll be with me once we wrap. I like love and I imagine it in it,” she instructed the outlet on the 2026 Grammys on Sunday, February 1, which Stokes didn’t attend.
Throughout their relationship, each Stokes and Ballerini had gushed about one another in media interviews.
“I honestly assume whenever you discover any person who’s not simply any person you’re keen on and adore, however can be your finest buddy, you’ve form of acquired the very best of each worlds,” Stokes stated of Ballerini throughout an October 2024 look on As we speak. “And she or he’s not only a nice particular person, however every thing that you just see — whether or not or not it’s on social media or when she’s on stage — is precisely the particular person she is when she’s not doing these issues.”
Chatting with Us in July 2025, Ballerini mirrored on how the connection had advanced over time.
“You do (problem one another), or it’s boring and then you definitely’re stagnant after which that’s not going to work out,” she instructed Us in July. “I believe we’re two and a half years in, so (the connection) appears to be like loads totally different now than it did to start with. I don’t know, I believe we’re actually related — and within the ways in which we’re totally different, that’s the place we problem one another. … I simply need all the great issues on the earth for him.”