Kelly Yazdi shared a press release on Instagram shortly after her estranged husband, Zac Brown, filed for a short lived restraining order due to Yazdi’s Instagram posts which can be allegedly damaging to him and violate a confidentiality settlement. Brown filed for a short lived restraining order on Friday (Might 17) in Fulton County, Georgia. Yazdi shared a video on Instagram with a caption on Sunday (Might 19). She wrote in her assertion:
“Nobody — not even Zac Brown with all of his cash, energy, movie star, and attorneys – might silence my proper to freely categorical myself by artwork or, though I’ve to this point declined to take action publicly, to talk about the circumstances of our pending divorce. I intend to reply swiftly and robustly to his meritless criticism that publication of two poems on my private social media account divulged any ‘confidential info’ about his enterprise, a lot much less authorizes a court docket to enjoin me from talking about issues in my private life that don’t have anything to do with my transient former work for the Zac Brown Collective, Inc.
“It’s past ironic that Zac’s first act after submitting an pointless public divorce lawsuit was to launch a music video that intentionally mocked our marriage ceremony social gathering from just a few months earlier than — together with a false and defamatory caricature clearly supposed to be me and damage me – adopted by a second pointless and legally meritless public lawsuit and press launch, but he now claims his ‘solely hope’ is that we present one another ‘mutual respect’ by preserving ‘non-public issues non-public’ as we negotiate the phrases of our divorce.
“In a misguided effort to just do that, I’ve made no public response to both of these very public, very pointless private assaults on me by my movie star soon-to-be-ex-husband. However it’s clearly Zac, not me, who has strategically chosen to pull our tough divorce negotiations into the general public eye with these techniques in an effort to painting himself as a sufferer and to make use of his huge sources to silence me from telling the reality about our marriage. It won’t work, and I can’t be silenced by him irrespective of how ridiculous his techniques.
“Like Zac, I’ve attorneys too, and I’ll inform my reality in court docket — the place he has unnecessarily dragged me.”
The Zac Brown Band frontman stated in a press release to PEOPLE and different information retailers over the weekend that he “took the steps essential to implement an settlement between us to keep up private and enterprise affairs in confidence and to guard my household from on-line harassment and hypothesis. My solely hope is for us to maintain non-public issues non-public and to maneuver ahead with the mutual respect we had agreed to indicate each other once we parted methods.” Yazdi could be ordered to take away the Instagram posts if Brown’s submitting is granted. Particularly, a submit earlier this month seems to confer with her relationship with Brown, although the particular person she refers to isn’t talked about by identify.
Brown and Yazdi separated solely 4 months after getting married. They confirmed in a press release in December 2023 that “we’re within the means of divorce. Our mutual respect for each other stays. We want one another the perfect and can all the time admire our time collectively. As we navigate this private matter, we merely request privateness throughout this time.”