Maren Morris Says Son Hayes Has 'Brought Me Through a Lot This Year' Following Divorce and Coming Out (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

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Ahead of the release ofher new EPIntermission, the musician, 34, spoke with PEOPLE about her tight bond with her son Hayes Andrew, whom she shares with ex-husbandRyan Hurd. Morrisfinalized her divorce from Hurdin January, just five months before “The Middle” singercame out as bisexualin June.

With so many recent changes in Morris’s life, the proud mom tells PEOPLE that Hayes has “definitely brought me through a lot of this year.”

“Whether he knows it or not,” she continues, “I doubt he does, but I just want to be a good mom to him. "

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Maren Morris and Ryan Hurd.Maren Morris/Instagram

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Being on the road for herRSVP Redux tourhas only made their mother-son bond stronger, Morris explains.

“He loves being on the road, which has been so much fun this summer, having Hayes out. I don’t know, we feel like partners in crime a little bit, and we’re going to be on this bus journey for forever,” she shares with PEOPLE. “It just makes me so happy when he’s out and the fact that he loves it out here so much.”

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Maren Morris and Ryan Hurd.Johnny Nunez/Getty

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“I think he’s gone through a lot and there’s. I’m sure, a lot of confusion because he’s so little,” she says. “But also, I feel like Ryan and I have done a really great job at just being great parents for him.

Elsewhere in the conversation, Morris tells PEOPLE about theinspiration behind her new songs,sharing that one track on the record — “Because, Of Course” — is a “love letter” to Hayes.

“I wrote it about him,” Morris confirmed.

“It’s obviously my promise to him: Every love like that, especially a mother’s should be unconditional, but I like that when people listen to the song, it could be taken as a romantic song, but I didn’t write it about that. It was just about love itself.”

For more on Maren Morris and her new EP, pick up the new issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands everywhere Friday.

source: people.com