Jana Kramer's Dating History: From Mike Caussin to Allan Russell

7 月 15 日

After her divorce from Mike Caussin in 2021, Jana Kramer wed Allan Russell in July 2024

Jana Kramer is married!

Former professional soccer player Allan Russell and the One Tree Hill alum tied the knot in July 2024 after the couple welcomed their first child together in November 2023.

While Roman is the country singer's first baby with Russell, they both have children from previous relationships: Kramer is mom to daughter Jolie Rae and son Jace Joseph, whom she shares with ex-husband Mike Caussin, and Russell has a teenage son named Troy.

Kramer’s marriage to Caussin is one of her most well-known relationships. After six years of marriage, Kramer filed for divorce from Caussin in 2021, citing adultery and inappropriate marital conduct.

“As I try to make sense of a reality I never wanted to believe could be possible again, those words have now become a reality," she wrote on Instagram to announce their divorce in April 2021. "I've fought y'all. I've loved hard. I've forgiven. I've put the work in. I've given everything I have, and now I have nothing else to give."

Prior to her marriage to Caussin, Kramer dated country music star Brantley Gilbert. The pair met in 2012 and got engaged in January 2013 but called off the engagement in August of the same year. Before her relationship with Gilbert, Kramer was married to actor Johnathon Schaech from 2010 to 2011.

Here’s a look back at Jana Kramer’s dating history.

Michael Gambino

After two weeks of dating in 2004, Kramer married Michael Gambino. In an emotional October 2016 interview with PEOPLE, Kramer recalled meeting Gambino when she was 19 years old at a Los Angeles coffee shop. She described Gambino, who was 17 years older than her, as “a smooth-talker, very charming, intriguing and obviously older.”

"At the time, I liked that. I felt protected,” Kramer explained, adding that she noticed a scary change in Gambino’s behavior soon after their wedding. He was easily angered and jealous — so much so that Kramer said she frequently spent nights in her car or hiding in the bushes until his mood subsided.

"When I said, 'I can't do this anymore,' he sent me a photo of my dogs on the freeway and said, 'I'm going to let them go if you don't come home,' " she recalled. "He'd kick me out of the house, I'd sleep in the car and then that next morning I'd be with him in bed again."

Kramer said Gambino also physically abused her, and on Aug. 6, 2005, he choked her until she was unconscious and left her bleeding outside of their home. He was later convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to six years in prison.

"I remember praying that night, 'Please, just take me away, I don't want to be here anymore,' " Kramer recalled.

Gambino was released from prison in 2010 and died by suicide two years later.

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