Yesterday, we dug into the ongoing fallout of Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert’s 2015 divorce, focusing in part on Shelton’s recent tweet that vaguely referenced taking the high road and experiencing schadenfreude over karma biting someone else in the ass. While many people (including myself and Lambert’s ex Jeff Allen McManus) assumed that someone was in fact Lambert, Shelton is now saying that we’ve got it all wrong.
In an interview with Extra on Monday, Shelton was asked about his “karma” tweet. He explained it as a “personal thing,” adding:
“[It was] in a small circle of my people and that’s why it was written the way it was, and then people took it and make it into what they want to make it into, which I don’t want any part of that…But at the same time, I can’t help but to think it’s funny how these fires get lit and it takes off and I don’t have time to care. That’s why I’ve kind of moved on.”
He went a little further in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, saying, “If it was meant for people to know exactly what it meant, it wouldn’t have been so cryptic.”
Question for the room: does Blake Shelton think we’re idiots? That’s like me tweeting, “Country stars from Oklahoma who smell like Coors Banquet and also co-host The Voice are petty as hell,” and telling Mario Lopez I was making a cryptic inside joke that could have been about anyone.