From Affair to Aftermath: Inside Brandi Glanville’s Long-Running Feud With Eddie Cibrian and LeAnn Rimes
Brandi Glanville’s marriage went up in flames after Eddie Cibrian’s reported on-set affair with LeAnn Rimes during 2008’s Northern Lights — sparking a feud that raged for nearly a decade.
If you survived the late-2000s tabloid era, you remember this one. Brandi Glanville, Eddie Cibrian, and LeAnn Rimes spent years volleying headlines, shade, and the occasional prediction about the future. Here is the clean, no-BS version of how it started messy, dragged on for almost a decade, and somehow ended with everyone acting like grown-ups.
How it spiraled, then settled
Glanville and Cibrian were married. Then Cibrian worked with Rimes on the film 'Northern Lights' and, in 2008, rumors of an affair kicked off. From there, it was a long, public slog. The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum filed for divorce, Rimes and Cibrian made it official, there were years of sniping from both sides, and then, shocker: a truce. The beats are below.
- 2008: After costarring in 'Northern Lights,' rumors surface that Eddie Cibrian and LeAnn Rimes are having an affair. That is when Brandi Glanville says her issues with Rimes began.
- 2010: Glanville, by then on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, files to divorce Cibrian.
- 2011: Cibrian marries Rimes, a Grammy winner.
- December 2012: Rimes, known for 'I Need You,' is hospitalized for extreme anxiety. Around the same time, Glanville publicly predicts the newlyweds will likely split within 10 years.
- 2010s, ongoing: Back-and-forth allegations fly from both camps. The feud stays very much alive, very much public.
- April 2018: The temperature finally drops. After a face-to-face sit-down, Glanville declares the long-running feud over.
- 2022: Four years after that truce, Rimes says she and Glanville are still on good terms.
'The three of us sat and talked for hours [and] hashed everything out and the feud with @leannrimes Eddie and I is over'
Yes, it was a lot: a workplace spark, a divorce, a fast remarriage, a hospitalization, and nearly ten years of public crossfire before they called it. But credit where it is due — by 2018 they actually squashed it, and by 2022, the peace was still holding.