The couple that plays
together...well, is sadly no longer a couple.
Laidback "I'm Yours"
chart-topper Jason Mraz has split from his fellow singer-songwriter
fiancée Tristan Prettyman, his rep confirms to E! News.
The duo has long been on and off,
but all seemed well when they announced their engagement last December. So
what's the cause of the unexpected break? (And if you're expecting the standard
"mutual decision, we're still friends" line, think again.)
"My greatest mistake right now
is, I've been clinging to my art," the 33-year-old newly single musician
told The Daily Beast.
"In that, I have victory for my art and a great loss for my heart. At the
moment, my beautiful fiancée is no longer my beautiful fiancée."
For those who don't speak poet, let
us translate: his work got in the way. So too, it seems, did the comprises he
made for the sake of the relationship.
"In my relationship, I was
giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, I wasn't
doing better by doing that. I became less of a man," he added.
Though he announced their engagement
after years together (they previously briefly split in 2006) last December, the
duo never set a wedding date, and instead proclaimed that they foresaw a long
engagement.
Still, Mraz said he and Prettyman
are "still super friends, we go to yoga together, we surf together."
And while he waited until this morning to go public with news of the split, he
seemed to hint at a separation while attending the Samsung Hope for Children
gala in New York last night.
"What I've recently discovered
is that a relationship isn't made by two halves making a whole," he told
E! News. "It's made by two wholes coming together. So the more you love
yourself, the more the relationship will flourish."
He also let slip that marriage may
not be currently in the cards for him, by noting "if"—not
when—"I do get married, it's going to be very quiet."
Still, sad as it is for him and his
former fiancée, it's somewhat good news for his fans. Nothing makes great music
like a broken heart.
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