Darius Rucker opens up about the end of his ten-year marriage to Beth Leonard in an upcoming interview with Tamron Hall.
In an exclusive excerpt from the interview promoting his new memoir The life is too short, Rucker discussed how Leonard convinced him to stop his hard partying, but also discussed the breakup of the couple's marriage. Rooker and Leonard married in 2000 and announced their separation in 2020.
“He saved my life. I have so much love and respect for her,” Rucker said during the interview. “The night she just told me, 'It's time to quit,' in her colorful way, I realized it was time to quit. That day, I called the band, got my own bus, said, “It's over for me.” It ended because I respected her and my family. I just wanted to be a better person.”
She also said that it was difficult to write about the end of the couple's marriage, “because it was difficult to write about how awful I was as a wife. To realize that he did everything he could. She's so wonderful, she's still an amazing person, an amazing person. I love her so much. But I was just a rock star and I lived that life.”
He went on to add: “I wanted to tell the truth, but sometimes the truth sucks. She sucks for me and in writing about her, I just wanted people to know that it was all me. She was awesome. It was all me.”
In his memoir, Rucker details his childhood growing up in South Carolina and how he dealt with the deaths of his older brother and his mother early in life. Elsewhere in the book, he wrote about his estranged relationship with his late father, chronicled the rise of Hootie & the Blowfish, and detailed his journey to making country music as a solo artist.
Rucker's Life's Too Short: A Memoir released May 28 via Dey Street Books.
Rucker's full interview is streaming Tamron Hall Thursday June 6th, check local listings on shows Website. Watch an excerpt of Rucker's interview below:
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