After just five months of marriage, country star Kenny Chesney and actress Renee Zellweger have announced they will annul their marriage.

Chesney’s publicist confirmed the details Thursday afternoon.

Another source close to Chesney said he received news of the annulment Wednesday while in Nashville. Zellweger, meanwhile, initiated the proceedings while in New York, CMT.com reports.

The couple married May 9 on St. John island in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where he owns a house. It was the first marriage for both.

The two met at the Concert of Hope tsunami relief effort on January 15 and had a quiet courtship out of the media spotlight.

The day after the wedding, Chesney told CMT News, “I am incredibly happy. I may well be the luckiest man alive … to be so in love with someone who is so perfect for me. It’s just hard to imagine that I’m not going to wake up.”






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