LeAnn Rimes' ex-husband, Dean Sheremet, opened up about the singer's affair three years ago with Eddie Cibrian. Sheremet told "Access Hollywood" that he was "blindsided" by the affair and never saw it coming, the Daily News reports.
"I had a call... from LeAnn," Sheremet said. "She said, 'well, US Weekly may or may not have a picture of me and Eddie kissing.' I'm like, 'Whoa! What do you mean may or may not have a picture? What does that mean?' So then... it unfolded from there."
He said Rimes then told him about being unfaithful and having an affair with now-husband Eddie Cibrian, who was married to Brandi Glanville at the time. Cibrian and Rimes met on the set of Lifetime's "Northern Lights."
The affair led both Cibrian and Rimes to end their marriages.
"The affair was, I mean, of all things that I could have ever imagined would have happened, I never would have thought," Sheremet said. "I guess you have that assumption that the person that you're with would never do something like that. How close we were, I just never saw it coming. If anyone would have seen it, I thought that I would have."
Sheremet is now married to photographer Sarah Silver. The former dancer said he rarely talks to the "Spitfire" singer but their relationship taught him a lot.
"I don't know [if I] dodged a bullet... every relationship you learn from," he said. "I think that was my learning experience of what I needed to do to pick myself up and kind of do what I needed to do. It's hard to delineate where I stopped and LeAnn began."
"We were so intertwined. I was husband, I was father, I was manager," he continued. "There were so many different roles, and it was hard to juggle all those things when you just want to be in love with someone."
The affair was highly publicized and both Rimes and Cibrian faced a tremendous amount of backlash. The 31-year-old singer told People magazine that at the time she felt like her life was spiraling out of control but now feels "settled."
Two years after the affair began Rimes and Cibrian married. Sheremet said there is no hostility between the two but they do keep their distance.
"I have nothing but love for her, and I really wish her the best. But we don't really talk that much," he said. "There's not really a need to. I don't really know what we would talk about."
It seems like Rimes didn't appreciate the interview and lashed out at her ex-husband on Twitter.
"I've got nothing! Over it, long gone, next... I mean really!? TGIF," she tweeted.
A fan then commented saying "@leannrimes Can't believe they interviewed him after all this time - as he put it 'whatever gets me in the door' Agreed - MOVE ON!"
Rimes responded "sorry, but that statement..."
When another fan asked her what the word of the day was the "Spitfire" singer responded with "today, let's go w/'home wrecker' [unless] you're talking about demolition then it's acceptable lol."
