EVERYONE has some skeletons in their closet, but Miranda Lambert and Brendan McLoughlin may want to consider working out their past issues instead of sweeping them under the rug.
Brendan McLoughlin may have made headlines this past week for getting caught on camera exhibiting some major PDA with several mystery women, but it’s not the first scandal to rock the couple’s marriage.
MORE LIKE HER
Not everyone has to be (or wants to be) friends with their ex, but who you dated in the past – and how you acted in the relationship – can offer insights into how successful your next romance will be.
Before marrying Miranda Lambert, Brendan McLoughlin was allegedly dating a woman named Jackie Bruno.
On February 19, 2019, less than a month after Lambert and McLoughlin tied the knot, Bruno’s mother, Carol revealed her daughter was “blindsided” by his infidelity.
“She was engaged to Brendan and he cheated on her and got another girl pregnant,” Carol told Us Weekly.
“It’s all true,” she said, adding: “she was thrown for a loop, she had no clue.”
McLoughlin, now a retired NYPD officer, welcomed a baby boy named Landon with Kaihla Rettinger in November 2018, just days after meeting Lambert for the first time on Good Morning America.
Carol also revealed that it was Rettinger who broke the news to her daughter.
“The girl contacted her. Jackie was in Sweden playing professional soccer, got injured and came home and the girl contacted her. She broke the news to her,” Carol added.
“[Brendan] tried to deny it and then begged her to stay with him,” she continued.
“She was only going for a few months to play, he was begging her to marry him before she left, even though he knew the girl was pregnant.”
SETTLING DOWN
Lambert didn’t seem to be too concerned with McLoughlin becoming a father just days after the two met.
“I was like ‘Hey, I got the dogs, you got the kid, we can mix and mingle,'” she told Extra in June 2019.
“My stepson [Landon] is amazing,” Miranda said, adding “it’s great” to be around him.
“I’m loving that whole phase, and I’ve raised a million dogs, so I feel like I’ve got that part of my womanly/motherly thing is full, so this is a whole new journey.”
Rettinger, Landon’s mother, has never publicly commented on Lambert and McLoughlin’s relationship.
HEART LIKE MINE
During a July 2023 performance at her Las Vegas residency, Velvet Rodeo, Lambert called out a group of fans for taking a selfie during her song, Tin Man.
“These girls are worried about their selfie and not listening to the song,” Lambert told the crowd, after pausing her performance.
“It’s pissing me off a little bit. Sorry, I don’t like it. At all.”
“We’re here to hear some country music tonight,” she said, adding: I’m singing some country damn music,” before motioning the group to sit down.
“It felt like I was back at school with the teacher scolding me for doing something wrong and telling me to sit down back in my place,” one of the concertgoers, Adela Calin, told NBC News.
“I feel like she was determined to make us look like we were young, immature and vain.”
“But we were just grown women in our 30s to 60s trying to take a picture,” she added.
Though the incident didn’t directly involve McLoughlin, Lambert may have had him on her mind.
Multiple sources online have said that McLoughlin reportedly “regularly” cheats on Lambert.
There have been sightings of him bar-hopping in the Nashville entertainment district, hitting on and getting flirty with mystery women.
One social media user reportedly even knows about McLoughlin’s alleged wandering eye.
“My boyfriend used to work with him before nypd, said he was always a ladies man,” the source wrote.
“Had a new chick every week. I just sent this to him, we’re having a laugh about it,” they added.
BRING ME DOWN
While Lambert has had cheating allegations of her own in the past, it seems like McLoughlin has taken the reigns on scandal-maker in the duo’s marriage.
In May 2024, the U.S. Sun reported that McLoughlin was becoming a regular at his wife’s Nashville bar, Casa Rosa, with and without his wife.
The former cop is reportedly “missing city life,” despite splitting time between his former home in Staten Island and Lambert’s Nashville home.
“Miranda comes and throws parties, [but] she used to come in more,” a source at Casa Rosa exclusively told The U.S. Sun.
“Her husband comes a lot just to hang out,” the source added.
White Liar
Just a week after it was reported that McLoughlin misses his old life, Lambert opened up about the couple’s relationship in an exclusive interview with People.
“It’s communication,” she answered when asked if she had any rules in her relationship.
“We just talk it out, whatever it is, we talk about everything,” she continued.
“And I think communication is super important, especially because women, we expect men to know what we’re thinking and they don’t.”
“We got to tell them,” she added.
FAMOUS IN A SMALL TOWN
On Monday, June 24, 2024, a video of McLoughlin engaging in some flirty, touchy-feely behavior went viral on TikTok.
The video shows McLoughlin dancing and grinding with a mystery woman.
He was also seen hugging another woman, who occasionally would put her arms around McLoughlin, place her hands on his cheeks, and even hold the back of his head.
The flirty exchange went down at Casa Rosa, though Lambert was nowhere in sight.
“Wild for him to publicly humiliate her like this,” one user commented.
“Divorce announcement in 1…2…3,” another wrote.
Neither Lambert nor McLoughlin have commented on the video, though one of the mystery women came forward later in the week to tell her side of the story.
They mystery woman alleges that she and a group of friends were partying it up in Nashville for a bachelorette weekend, and she innocently asked McLoughlin for a picture with the bride-to-be.
“We were all dancing together and laughing and talking, thanking him for helping to make our bride-to-be’s night so special and fun,” the mystery woman told In Touch.
“The bar was extremely loud, and even yelling in each other’s ear, it was hard to hear anything.”
“Truly, none of us ever felt that there was any flirting happening. It was just dancing, laughing, and talking.”
“He was friendly and casual, but never inappropriate or suggestive in any way,” she added.
Miranda Lambert and Brendan McLoughlin Relationship Timeline
Miranda Lambert and Brendan McLoughlin’s relationship blossomed immediately, but time will tell if they can keep their marriage intact.
November 2, 2018: Miranda Lambert meets Brendan McLoughlin on the set of Good Morning America.
Lambert was performing with her band, the Pistol Annies, while McLoughlin, then a NYPD officer, was doing security for the show.
Lambert’s security guard and bandmates helped orchestrate the set-up, which involved inviting McLoughlin to the band’s show.
January 26, 2019: Lambert and McLoughlin officially tie the knot on a farm outside of Nashville, less than three months after their initial meeting.
February 16, 2019: Lambert reveals she wed McLoughlin in a belated Valentine’s Day announcement posted on Instagram and X.
April 2019: The new couple make their red carpet debut at the 2019 ACM Awards in Las Vegas, Nevada.
December 25, 2019: Lambert and McLoughlin celebrate their first Christmas together as a married couple, in Lambert’s home state, Texas.
January 26, 2020: The loved-up duo celebrate their first wedding anniversary, with Lambert sharing photos from the couple’s nuptials.
March 2020: McLoughlin retires from the NYPD after taking a leave of absence in 2019; he continues to split his time between Nashville and New York City, where he has a son from a previous relationship.
October 2020: McLoughlin makes his acting debut in Miranda Lambert’s music video for her 2019 song, Settling Down
January 26, 2021: The hot couple celebrate their second wedding anniversary.
October 14, 2021: Lambert and McLoughlin get all dressed up in honor of his 30th birthday
January 26, 2022: Lambert and McLoughlin celebrate their third wedding anniversary.
November 8, 2022: The duo attended the BMI Country Awards, where Lambert was nominated for Entertainer of the Year, Female Vocalist of the Year, and Album of the Year.
January 26, 2023: Lambert and McLoughlin celebrate their fourth wedding anniversary.
February 5, 2023: After performing her new single, Carousel, Lambert walked the red carpet of the ACM Awards with her beau.
January 26, 2024: Lambert and McLoughlin celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary.
May 15, 2024: Lambert opens up about her relationship with People magazine, explaining that her one marriage rule is “communication,” just months after calling her husband a “truth-teller.”
June 24, 2024: A series of video clips showing McLoughlin dancing and engaging in what appears to be flirty, touchy-feely behavior with several mystery women at Lambert’s Casa Rosa bar in Nashville go viral.
June 27, 2024: One of the mystery women featured in the video speaks out to In Touch, revealing that nothing inappropriate happened between her, her friends, and McLoughlin, who ended up leaving the bar – alone – before the night was over.
