Renee Zellweger and Kenny Chesney on their wedding dayKenny Chesney purposely threw himself into his work to dull the pain after his marriage to Renée Zellweger ended after just four months together.

The couple married in May last year but had their marriage annulled again in September, with Renée citing “fraud” as the reason for the annulment.

Kenny revealed: “I told myself ‘I’m not the only guy who has gone through this’.”

“That didn’t make it any better at the moment. I’m happier right now than I’ve been in a long, long time. Well, a year.”

“A long, long year. When your life takes on a life of its own, you’ve got to let it play out.”

“What I did was play some songs and write some songs and spend time around people on the road.”