Zac Brown and Kelly Yazdi
Getty Images/Courtesy of Kelly Yazdi/InstagramZac Browns friend Jake Nodar defends the musician against his ex-wife Kelly Yazdi’s “one-sided” claims.
“A few months ago, Zac’s ex posted a poem on social media that rivals the greats like Dr. Seuss. It was titled ‘Butterflies Don’t Belong in Nets,'” Nodar said in an Instagram video on Friday, August 9. “She said she was a wildflower ripped from the ground and stuffed into a pot. I’m telling you, most people would kill to live in that pot.”
Nodar claimed that Yazdi, 33, had previously spent “thousands (of dollars) a month” on spa treatments, clothing and vacations.
“Kelly claims to be a wild horse kept in a cage. As someone who has trained horses professionally for over 20 years and worked with real wild horses, I just want to say that is an insult to all real wild horses,” Nodar joked. “Kelly talks about how Zac didn’t want her to dress a certain way. Let me tell you, if you’re a grown human being and you think it’s OK to wear a string bikini that shows off your (body) when you’re bending over in front of 8-year-olds, you deserve to be told otherwise.”
Paras Griffin/Getty Images; Courtesy of Kelly Yazdi/Instagram Zac Brown is in the midst of a public divorce. The country singer and his estranged wife Kelly Yazdi announced in December 2023 that they were separating after four months of marriage. “We are in the process of getting a divorce. Our mutual respect remains,” (…)
Brown, 46, and Yazdi secretly married in August 2023 before splitting four months later. In May, Brown sued Yazdi, claiming one of her Instagram posts damaged his public image. The Zac Brown Band frontman claimed Yazdi’s post violated a confidentiality agreement she signed during their tumultuous marriage. He also sought a restraining order, which was denied by a judge.
In court documents obtained by We weekly Earlier this month, Brown accused Yazdi of stealing confidential documents. Yadzi has since denied Brown’s allegations.
“I intend to respond quickly and decisively to his baseless complaint that the posting of two poems on my personal social media account revealed ‘confidential information’ about his business,” she wrote on Instagram in May. “Not to mention that it gives a court the right to prohibit me from discussing matters in my personal life unrelated to my brief past work for the Zac Brown Collective, Inc.”
According to Nodar, Yazdi’s statements repeatedly contain “false accusations” that are “slanderous” against Brown.
“Kelly directed her family members to comment (on our posts) and told them exactly what to say,” he claimed. “Kelly likes to paint a picture of herself as a free spirit…that is not the case. I have seen Kelly bring employees to tears on multiple occasions. Kelly was controlling, Kelly was mean, and when Kelly didn’t get her way, all hell broke loose.”
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Nodar further stressed that Brown and Yazdi’s marriage “was not a locked-in-a-castle situation,” as Yazdi had coveted “fame, power and money” for a very long time.
Nodar continued, “Zac took care of Kelly. It wasn’t just about the trips or the clothes or the spa treatments or paying off her house in Hawaii. Zac also paid her a very generous salary for the work she did at his company.”
According to Nodar, Yazdi was allegedly aware that “her time with the company was up” when Brown filed for divorce.
“So she logged into her work email account and stole 170 documents, many of which were confidential, and forwarded them to her personal email address,” Nodar claimed. “That’s a crime.”
Yazdi addressed the ongoing litigation in a social media video Thursday, August 8, calling the allegations “misleading” but did not specifically mention the allegations of breach of confidentiality.
Zac was previously married to Shelly Brownwith whom he has daughters Justice (16), Lucy (15), Georgia (14), Joni (12) and son Alexander (9).
