Details are emerging about the tragic death of the performer’s husband.
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Kellie Pickler is mourning the death of her husband, songwriter and producer Kyle Jacobs
Country music producer and songwriter Kyle Jacobs, the husband of country singer and Hallmark Channel actress Kellie Pickler, has died by apparent suicide, according to CNN. The outlet said Nashville’s Department of Emergency Communications responded to a 911 call from Pickler and Jacobs’ home at 1:21 pm local time on February 17, 2023.
In a statement provided to Nashville’s WKRN, metro police said Pickler told them she woke up a short time earlier and when she did not see her husband, she began looking for him with her personal assistant. The outlet reported that after the pair was unable to open the door to the upstairs bedroom/office, Pickler’s assistant called 911.
Once inside the home, the statement continued, investigators found Jacobs in an upstairs bedroom/office, dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Police said they are investigating Jacobs’ death as an apparent suicide at age 49.
GettyKyle Jacobs and Kellie Pickler at the 2017 CMT Music Awards
Two years after Pickler placed fifth on “American Idol,” the country artist and actress met Jacobs — who grew up in a suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota — at the Tin Roof bar in downtown Nashville, according to the Minnesota Star Tribune. The next day, the paper reported, they set up a songwriting session and started dating. Two and a half years later, the couple eloped — on January 1, 2011 — on a private island in the Caribbean.
By the time Pickler and Jacobs met, he was already enjoying success as a country music songwriter, according to CMT. In 2007, he co-wrote Garth Brooks’ “More Than A Memory,” which became the first song to ever debut at Number One on Billboard’s Country Singles chart, according to Country Now.
