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Sheryl Crow She revealed her decision to leave Los Angeles behind to begin a new chapter in her life in Tennessee.
During an interview with Variety The 63-year-old singer, published Wednesday, reflected how nearly 20 years ago the move to Nashville was spurred by her sudden cancer diagnosis and painful breakup with then-Lance Armstrong, and the loss of the family she had with him.
“We all have moments when we have to pivot into our lives,” Crow said. “I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006 and moved here in 2007.”
After finding himself at a crossroads in his life, Sheryl Crow decides to move from Los Angeles to Nashville. (Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post byotty Images)
“I thought I was going to get married and I think it came from a relationship that was close to my seamed children. I was diagnosed after that. All three of those things reevaluated me,” she added.
Sheryl Crow admits that she “saved my life” from Los Angeles to Tennessee
“I just saw that and thought, ‘I want to put my roots in. I want a family,'” the nine-time Grammy winner added. “My sisters live here and my whole family lived within three hours, so I decided to start phase 2.”
Crow and Armstrong We started dating in 2003 However, they announced their engagement in 2005. However, the relationship between the musician and the former professional cyclist ended in February 2006 when the engagement was cancelled.
“It’s like death,” she told Diane Sawyer in a July 2006 interview after the split. “And in many ways, it’s like cutting off a part of your life, but you still have that phantom itch, you know, where you are awake, I look at something and say, “Oh, I need to make sure Lance is hip to this band. I have to put it on his iPod.” And I remember, “Oh, wait, you know, that’s not my life.”
Armstrong, 53, told author Josh Wilcockson in 2009 that their relationship broke up beyond her “biological clock” because she wanted children in the mid-40s, according to the New York Post. The former athlete and twin daughters Grace and Isabel, 23, who were already the father of their son Luke, 25, said he shares them with his ex-wife, Christine Richard.
Crow discovered he contracted cancer two weeks after splitting from Lance Armstrong. (Chrispoke/film magic)
After two and a half weeks of their split, Crow received a routine mammogram. She said she mostly skipped amid the uproars of her personal life.
“I was fighting all the paparazzi while I was trying to focus on my career,” she wrote 2022 People Magazine for People Magazine.
Crow continued. “I was a healthy person who always prioritized eating and exercising, but at that point it seemed impossible to focus on anything other than getting through every day and maintaining my career.”
The singer’s mammogram brought a biopsy revealing she had Stage-zero breast duct carcinoma in situ (DCIS) With one chest. The crows were then subjected to mastectomy with both breast and 7 weeks of radiation.
After treatment, the singer went into remission and she is now an advocate for early detection. (Taylor Hill/Getty Images)
In an interview in November 2023 People Magazine, The crow shared her Cancer diagnosis It was a pivotal moment in her life and asked her what she did to deserve it.
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“I hold the standard of being a really good person, so to realize I’m lying on the radiation table facing my deathbed,” she said, “What have I done? Why am I worth this?”
After treatment, Crow fell into remission and became a defender of the voices of early detection, emphasizing the importance of everyday mammograms.
Crows is the mother of his sons Wyatt and Levy. (Paul Hiffmeyer/Disneyland Resort via Getty Images)
In April 2006, Crow moved from LA to a rural town outside Nashville, where he purchased a 150-acre horse farm called Cross Creek Farm.
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“Everyday on a winding road” singer In April 2007, he hired his 18-year-old son Wyatt (18 years old). She later adopted her son, Levi, 14, in 2010.
In 2014, Crow sold Cross Creek Farm and bought a home in West Nashville. She previously explained that she had decided to approach town for her son.
“We were on a pretty path and preschool road,” she said. Architectural Digest 2019. “That was time.”
Crow said Nashville is an ideal place to raise his son. (Getty Images)
Originally from Missouri She told the outlet that she built a barn and stable, which also features a recording studio, saloon and a chapel.
While talking to Variety, Crow says she doesn’t regret moving to Tennessee, and living in Nashville continues to ground her. However, she added that she was always on Earth because of her background.
“When you punch a time clock, I think it makes a huge difference,” she said. “I was a post-university school teacher and didn’t make my first album until I was 29.”
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In 2023, Crow told the New York Times that he felt Nashville was an ideal place to raise children out of the spotlight.
“It’s great that my kids grow up with the idea that they live in the community and they owe their luck to help others. There are no paparazzi,“She said.
