Jana Kramer is speaking out for the first time about the impact that her former husband’s alleged affair had on her and their children.
An interview with me was featured on the show “Red Table Talk” on Facebook Watch, which will be broadcast in its entirety on October 19. The country singer and former star of “One Tree Hill” alleged that her ex-husband, NFL player Mike Caussin, cheated on her with multiple women during their marriage, which lasted from 2015 until 2021. Their marriage lasted from 2015 until 2021.
“Over time, you found out he cheated with about 13 women?” co-host Jada Pinkett Smith asks Kramer in a preview clip from the episode.
“More,” responds Kramer.
“I know we’re both in better situations, but I think about this year my kids won’t wake up in my house Christmas day,” Kramer adds as she begins to cry. “That one’s gonna hurt.”
After Pinkett Smith describes how difficult it is to let go of “familial dreams” because of the wrongdoing of another person, Kramer dries her tears and asks her how she is doing.
“That’s when I get like, ‘That’s not fair. You took away my dream, too, of what I wanted for my family,'” she says.
In their book “The Good Fight: Wanting to Leave, Choosing to Stay, and the Powerful Practice for Loving Faithfully,” Kramer and Caussin wrote about the difficulties they experienced in their marriage, which were in part caused by Caussin’s admitted sex addiction and cheating. The book was published in 2020.
“I’ve dated only a few women in my life,” Caussin wrote in the book. “Most of my relationships can be more described as ‘talking to,’ which essentially means we were sleeping together but I never committed enough to get my feelings involved. And when I did commit, I inevitably cheated. I couldn’t be alone.”
A few months later, in April 2021, after being married for six years, Kramer filed for divorce from Caussin, who was 35 at the time. The ex-couple share two children: a daughter named Jolie Rae, who will soon turn 6, and a son named Jace Joseph, who will soon turn 4 the following month.
“I’ve fought y’all. I’ve loved hard. I’ve forgiven. I’ve put the work in. I’ve given everything I have, and now I have nothing else to give,” Kramer wrote in an emotional Instagram post at the time.
In a later post on her Instagram account in November 2021, Kramer talked about how painful it was for her to think about spending her first Thanksgiving without her kids.
“I’m beyond thankful for my beautiful babies,” she wrote alongside pictures of her son and daughter. “My heart hurts not being with them today and I have a feeling whether it’s the first holiday apart or the 30th there will always be an ache in the heart… BUT How grateful and thankful I am that I’m their momma.”
After that, Kramer expressed his compassion for other parents who were going through something comparable during the holidays.
“Thinkin of all the others that are having a ‘first’ holiday of loss or missing or just a difficult time. Let it out and then let’s eat and drink our feelings,” she wrote.
In January 2022, Kramer announced in an Instagram post that had since been deleted that she had found romance again with Ian Schinelli. However, Kramer said the pair told Access that they went their separate ways after dating for less than a year.
