We have 20 million new photos of LeAnn Rimes in London over the weekend (she complained a lot about the time difference on Twitter), so I’m just selecting a handful for this post. She was in town to perform at the Country to Country music festival, which includes performances by Tim McGraw and Carrie Underwood too. Do you think Carrie Underwood and LeAnn get along? I doubt it. Well, I doubt Carrie gets along with most women in general, and if put LeAnn in that mix… no. No, they would not get along. Anyway, while LeAnn was in town, she did some advanced press for her album release, which is April Fool’s Day in England (ha). She appeared on the show “Loose Women” and the Mail has some excerpts:

She isn’t the first to fall for a married man and now LeAnn Rimes has opened up about her affair with her now husband Eddie Cibrian. The 30-year-old singer has that beginning a relationship with Eddie when she was still married to her first husband Dean Sheremet gave her a lot to write about for her new album.

Speaking on chat show Loose Women on Tuesday LeAnn said: ‘We were both married to other people and we went through the whole affair and thank god it turned out, it came out in my music and I like I said I really didn’t set out to do that. It was very cathartic.’

When asked if that was the reason she had taken so long with a new album the singer replied: ‘No life happens and it was amazing, even though it was crappy at times, but it gave me a lot to write about and I took my time.’

The Blonde singer also admitted that the songs are her side of the story after facing strong public criticism from Eddie’s ex-wife Brandi Glanville.

She said: ‘I wrote nine of the 13 songs on the record. It’s personal but at the same time I feel like I’m not the only one that has been through what I’ve been through. I’m telling my story. I feel like there’s been a piece of tape over my mouth for a while, you know growing up in this business is a weird way to grow up and you try to please everyone else and this time around I feel like I’ve nothing to lose by telling the truth. And it felt very liberating.’

One song on the album What Have I Done is entitled Borrowed and it discusses the ugly side of the period she calls a ‘dark time’.

She said: ‘My single ‘Borrowed’ is kind of takes an in-depth look into that situation and it wasn’t pretty. And I think it was so honest to that song that it kind of opened up a door. Nothing is off limits on this album and it’s opened up a door for me as an artist in so many ways just to be that honest and real.’

LeeAnn and Eddie met in 2009 while appearing on Northern Lights together and subsequently left their partners and filed for divorce.

[From The Mail]

What else is there to say about this mess that I haven’t said hundreds of times before? I mean, LeAnn is a raging narcissist, of course, but it still kind of blows me away that she consistently acts and feels like she was the most “wronged party” out of the whole situation. Like, she and Eddie had an affair (“thank god it turned out” – WTF?) and at the end of the day, she thinks that she’s a bigger victim than Brandi (and everyone else) because the poor baby felt like “there’s been a piece of tape over my mouth for a while”…??? How in the world can she feel that way when the past four years have involved incessant interviews, press, television appearances and let’s not forget, TWITTER. She got her side of the story out. The issue is that people still don’t think she’s any kind of victim.

Also: I’ll say something nice – her bangs look much better in these photos. I think it’s because someone added some longer fringe at the sides and LeAnn is doing them more “sideswept”.

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.