Kelsea Ballerini Reveals Details Of Her & Morgan Evans’ Divorce With Heartbreaking Short Film, ‘Rolling Up The Welcome Mat’

Ballerini also responded to ex-husband Morgan Evans’ track “Over For You” within the EP’s lyrics.

Kelsea Ballerini, Photo Courtesy of Instagram

After dropping her 2022 Subject To Change album, Kelsea Ballerini returns with what is inarguably her most intimate release yet – an EP titled, Rolling Up The Welcome Mat. The vulnerable six-track offering finds the singer/songwriter breaking up a fallen romance into chapters as she closes the door on a life she once knew and shared with ex-husband Morgan Evans.

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The EP comes with a deeply personal new short film, Rolling Up The Welcome Mat. In the film, Ballerini gives fans a deeper perspective into her emotional romantic journey over the past few years as she goes through the process of dealing with the changes that come with starting over.

Ballerini carefully constructed Rolling Up The Welcome Mat as the writer and director of the film, working alongside director Patrick Tracy. She wrote three of the six songs solo and collaborated with Alysa Vanderheym on three more tracks.

“I was writing by myself for most of the project, and it was nice to trust myself again,” Ballerini shares in a press release. “The only way I’ve been able to handle my life since I was 12 was to write about it. Ironically, I started writing music because my parents got divorced; that was my therapy. Rolling Up The Welcome Mat was how I processed everything. It’s the way I got my feelings out of my body and heart and put them to music, which is the purest way I could’ve handled it.”

The 20-minute masterpiece, which debuted at Midnight on Valentine’s Day, comes nearly three months after she officially finalized her divorce from Evans.

Kelsea Ballerini Will Soon Hit The Road

On Feb. 23 Ballerini will launch the UK leg of her HEARTFIRST tour, which comes in support of her fourth studio album, Subject To Change. The trek will visit Manchester, Glasgow, Birmingham, and London. Following the sold-out mini trek, Ballerini will return to the states for the US leg of the tour, with nine new headline shows across North America. The US leg of her Heartfirst tour begins on March 6 at History in Toronto, ON, and will wrap on March 18 in Pittsburgh, PA, at Stage AE.

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Later this year, Ballerini will hit the road with her longtime friend and musical hero, and “Half Of My Hometown” collaborator, Kenny Chesney, on the I Go Back Tour. The trek will visit 21 cities and will kick off on March 25 in State College, PA.

“Music has taken me so many incredible places,” Ballerini said. “Around the world, singing with some of my heroes in pop, alternative and contemporary music, but singing with Kenny is going home. He was the only voice I heard on ‘half of my hometown,’ and when he comes in, it’s just like hitting the Knoxville city limits. So to be able to go out to those cities like the place he and I grew up with an artist who’s accomplished what he has, it’s a lot like going home.”
Kenny Chesney, Kelsea Ballerini; Photo Courtesy of Ballerini Instagram

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For a complete list of upcoming tour dates, visit Kelsea Ballerini’s official website.