When Shelton was still just an up-and-coming country crooner, he married his high school sweetheart, Kaynette Williams, in 2003. The marriage was short-lived, and they divorced only three years later. A 2014 article from radio station 100.3 The Bull noted that Williams cited "inappropriate marital misconduct" as the reason for their divorce. The radio station also tracked down an interview Williams had given the National Enquirer a few years prior:
"After Blake and I split up, I moved from Tennessee back to Oklahoma, but then Blake and Miranda moved back there to a neighbouring town, and it just felt like Oklahoma wasn't big enough for all of us," she reportedly told the Enquirer. She's since remarried and stayed far away from the public eye.