When Kenny Chesney and Renee Zellweger got their four-month marraige annuled with the Oscar winner citing "Fraud," it resulted in widespread speculation that the country singer must be gay. In an interview with Anderson Cooper on Sunday's edition of "60 Minutes," Chesney addresses the rumors:
"The only fraud that was committed was me thinking that I knew what it was like ... that I really understood what it was like to be married, and I really didn't. We thought the least harmful (stated reason) was fraud because it (is) kind of broad … doesn't specify. And boy … we were wrong...It's not true (that I'm gay). Period. Maybe I should have come out and said no, I'm not (gay), but I didn't want to draw any more attention to it … I didn't have to prove to anybody that I wasn't (gay) … I didn't feel like I really did...Even though I'd sit here and say I wish we'd gotten divorced instead of all that annulment stuff and saved me a lot of public humiliation … I still don't have any regrets. I loved her, you know? And it was real."