Elle King Reveals She & Partner Dan Tooker Have Reconciled for Son After Split: ‘Worth Wiping a Slate Clean’ (Exclusive)
Mar. 15, 2025Elle King and Dan Tooker in November 2022.Photo:Jason Kempin/Getty
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Elle KingandDan Tookerare giving their relationship another shot.
“We’re back together,” the Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter, 35, tells PEOPLE exclusively.
“We had to grow,” King — who will release her new single"High Road"on Friday, Sept. 20 — says of her reconciliation with Tooker. “I don’t know. I’ll try anything twice.”
The “Drunk (and I Don’t Want to Go Home)” singer says she and Tooker recommitted to their relationship for Lucky.
“He’s definitely brought me and his dad back together just because, what are we doing?” King says. “We have everything that both of us have ever wanted right here. Let’s put our weapons down. Come on. This is it. This is life. It doesn’t get better than this. This is worth trying. This is worth wiping a slate clean. This is worth all the effort in the world. My family, this is what deserves all the energy and effort.”
Elle King, partner Dan Tooker and son Lucky in an Instagram post.Elle King/Instagram
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“We’re starting fresh. We just bought a really gorgeous new house in the mountains of Nashville,” she says. “It’s happy, it’s beautiful. I’m very happy, I’m very content, which is nice, and I don’t know if I’ve ever really felt that, so it’s a blessing.”
Last year, King opened up to PEOPLE about her tattoo shop meet-cute with Tooker.
Elle King and son Lucky in a June 2024 Instagram post.Elle King/Instagram
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At the time, King also contemplated why their relationship was stronger than past romances. She joked she needed to “get a man with a job!” before, more seriously, adding: “What I learned from all of my relationships is that maybe most of it really had nothing to do with them. We’re magnets. Why was I attracting them? Why was I allowing these things in my life? Why was I deficient in self-confidence? … I’ve changed a lot.”
For more on Elle King, pick up the new issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands everywhere Friday.
source: people.com
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