Taking his ex-wife back to court.
At this point the legal drama between Zac Brown and Kelly Yazdi has lasted longer than their marriage, with the couple filing for divorce just four months after getting married last year.
The Zac Brown Band frontman had been married to jewelry designer Shelly Brown, with whom he has five children, before the couple divorced in 2018 after 12 years of marriage. He then reportedly became engaged to Yazdi in 2022 before the couple tied the knot in August of 2023…and then split in December.
At the time, the couple issued a joint statement expressing their respect for each other:
“We are in the process of divorce. Our mutual respect for one another remains. We wish each other the best and will always appreciate our time together. As we navigate this personal matter, we simply request privacy during this time.”
But apparently things have gone south since then. Because this week, Zac filed a lawsuit against his ex-wife and is asking a judge to order Yazdi to remove an Instagram post that he claims is defamatory and damaging.
The lawsuit filed in Georgia doesn’t specify the post that Zac apparently has a problem with, but in a May 4 post, Yazdi included a lengthy caption referring to an emotionally abusive relationship, though not mentioning anybody by name:
“The wild horse who once roamed free but chose to trust her partner, only to realize along their journey that his intention was to bridle her spirit.
She was the butterfly caught in a net disguised as love; wings torn and abandoned in the darkest and coldest winter of her life… but she escaped from his golden handcuffs and rediscovered her wings – her freedom.
Her love was always unconditional.
She thought his was too…
But overtime it became apparent that he only knew conditional love; his unhealed trauma expressing itself thru his need to tame.
Don’t model anymore.
Take this picture off your Instagram.
Don’t wear that in the house.
Don’t post that bikini picture.
Don’t post anymore fitness videos.
Yes I said you could post that, but now I’m saying take it down.
I don’t want other men looking at what is mine.
I want to protect you, your body is sacred to me, can’t you see this is because I love you.
I don’t want to be with the kind of woman who has to show off her body for attention.
I will f*cking leave you.
Projections. Gaslighting. Threatening. Stonewalling.
Those are the ingredients of narcissistic abuse.
That “love” is conditional. “Love” disguised as compromise when in reality, it was control.
It nearly destroyed her… his betrayal forced her down a road through hell and brutal heartbreak, and the terrifying reality of narcissistic abuse… the scary truth that patiently waited to unmask itself only after vows were made.
But she stood in her faith through the storm.
Remembering who she was before all of this.
Remembering her sunshine was still there, ready to come back and fill her existence with the light she knew was always with her.
Butterflies don’t belong in nets.
Butterflies will never belong in nets.
This is her rebirth; her renaissance.
A true story that will one day help many others.”
Another recent post refers to herself as “spreading my wings after being in a net for years,” and in yet another she claims she “spent months being so scared and sad” after experiencing “such grief and betrayal.”
The lawsuit asks a judge to grant Zac a temporary restraining order forcing her to remove the post, which the “Chicken Fried” singer claims is a violation of a confidentiality agreement that Yazdi signed as an employee in August 2022.
In a statement on the litigation, Zac claims the lawsuit is necessary to protect his reputation:
“After much deliberation, I took the steps necessary to enforce an agreement between us to maintain personal and business affairs in confidence and to protect my family from online harassment and speculation.
My only hope is for us to keep private matters private and to move forward with the mutual respect we had agreed to show one another when we parted ways.”
According to Fox News, the court granted Brown’s emergency restraining order, but as of right now the posts still remain on Yazdi’s Instagram account.