Carly Pearce admitted she knew  immediately that she shouldn't have married her ex-husband Michael Ray.

The country crooner explained the relationship with fellow musician Ray was more about lust than love during an appearance on Bunnie XO's podcast, "Dumb Blonde." Despite marrying Ray for the right reasons, Pearce claimed the two weren't living in reality.

"I thought he was so cute," she told Jelly Roll's wife while recalling her short-lived marriage. "I’d heard he’s the nicest guy in the world. I invited him to my (Billboard Country Airplay) No. 1 party for ‘Every Little Thing.’ Looking back on it, it was a hot and heavy lust. It wasn’t love. It was just passionate."

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"I got married to go the distance. When I married him, it was for the right reasons," Pearce insisted. 

"I think that when you travel like this, I thought I was doing the right thing by waiting to get married till I was 29. But we didn’t have real conversations and we didn’t really know about each other. We were kind of living this life that wasn’t really reality, now looking back on it, so I just think we didn’t really know each other."

"I knew the night I got married that I shouldn’t have," she admitted. "I think the best thing that ever happened to me was COVID, because it allowed me to deal with that in private. I think that I probably would have stayed in it longer if I could have avoided it and not had to… I was embarrassed when it happened … and I had shame around that and was heartbroken."

Pearce filed for divorce in 2020 after eight months of marriage to the country singer.

"It wasn't what I signed up for," she explained. "It just wasn't the marriage that I know I deserved. I knew that very quickly."

"And I think in the first – we were only married for eight months. Plenty happened to where it was very clear to me this was not, this just wasn't a marriage."

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Pearce and Bunnie XO briefly touched on the speculation Ray had cheated on the singer during their marriage.

"People have all their opinions and at first that was so hard for me because I was like, 'That's not true, that's not true, that's not true – What he's saying isn't true.' But at the end of the day, like my friends who walked that with me, they know," she said. "My parents know and God knows and that is enough. It's enough."

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Following the hardships Pearce faced during that year of her life, she found happiness after the divorce.

"I am in the happiest season of my life," the "Should've Known Better" singer told Bunnie XO. "I'm – actually if I ever saw him, if he ever watches this, thank you, because you taught me more about myself. You taught me how strong I am. You put me through things that have made me better now. And I don't wish him evil. I don't wish anything on him. I'm so glad that I'm not in that anymore."

"I think I was really shown just how much I care about me," Pearce added. "You know, like, I actually really have a lot of self-worth and that showed me that."

Police are responding to a mass shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Wednesday, with reports of two children killed and 17 people injured.

The suspected shooter of a group of Minneapolis Catholic school students at morning Mass Wednesday has been identified as Robert or Robin Westman, according to law enforcement sources.

The sources said the shooter may have used both names. 

Court records show that a Minneapolis juvenile named Robert Westman had their name legally changed to Robin in 2019.

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Robin M. Westman was previously known as Robert Paul Westman, according to court document filed by a mother named Mary Grace Westman.

"Minor child [redacted] identifies as a female and wants her name to reflect that identification," she wrote at the time.

The name Mary Grace Westman also appeared on the school's Facebook feed in 2021 -- identified as the parish secretary ahead of her retirement party.

She could not immediately be reached for comment. 

Disturbing videos posted by a person using the name Robin Westman were deleted from YouTube after the shooting, showing handwritten pages of a notebook, weapons with messages painted on them, and commentary from whoever filmed them. The clips' authenticity has not been confirmed by authorities.

The attack took place at Annunciation Catholic School on Wednesday morning, but police have not identified any of the victims. They said two children were killed. Authorities said the shooter committed suicide after the act.

Ten victims were taken to Hennepen Healthcare, which said it had received one adult and six children in critical condition and another adult and two more children with injuries that were not considered life-threatening. 

Police said the attacker was a male dressed in black and carrying a black rifle. 

The suspect's relationship to the school is also unknown, and it has not been confirmed whether the suspect had any connection to any students or staff.

The Children’s Minnesota Hospital said six children are being treated after the shooting. The hospital would not share details about the patients out of respect for them and their loved ones.

Police said 17 people were injured, including 14 children. Two of the 17 people injured are in critical condition.

President Donald Trump and other federal and state leaders have already remarked on the shooting. Trump confirmed that the FBI has launched an investigation.

The Minneapolis Police Department shared a message from the city of Minneapolis confirming "there is no active threat to the community at this time," and "the shooter is contained."

Fox News' Stephen Sorace, Kyle Schmidbauer and Rachel Wolf contributed to this report.

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