Kelsea Ballerini Slid Into Chase Stokes’ DMs After Finalizing Morgan Evans Divorce, Reveals Pickup Line: ‘I’m Just Vibing’

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It goes down in the DMs! Kelsea Ballerini is finally opening up about her relationship with Chase Stokes — and revealing how it all began.The Grammy nominee, 29, attempted to play coy about her status during the Wednesday, February 22, episode of “Call Her Daddy” when asked whether she’s single after her divorce from Morgan Evans. “I’m just vibing,” Ballerini teased with a laugh.Earlier this year, the country songstress was linked to the Outer Banks actor, 30, after they were spotted getting cozy at the College Football Playoff National Championship.

They were later photographed holding hands in Nashville — but Ballerini wasn’t worried about how Evans, 37, would react.“I’m not married to him anymore,” she explained on Wednesday. “I don’t need to care about his feelings anymore.

I mean that with all the respect in the world, but his journey is not mine. I hope that he is protected from what he needs to be protected from seeing … [but] that is not my job.”The “Muscle Memory” artist went on to describe how she reached out to Stokes with the encouragement of her manager. “I slid into those DMs,” she revealed, noting that she wasn’t interested in trying out any dating apps. “He shoots [Outer Banks] in Charleston, and my manager lives there. … He was like, ‘You know who’s really cute, like, when you’re ready?

Chase.’ I was like, ‘You’re so right.'”In order to view the video, please allow Manage CookiesBallerini confessed that she’d never watched Stokes’ hit Netflix series, which premiered in 2020, but she “knew of him.” She followed him on Instagram — and had the perfect opening line for her first message.“His handle is ‘hichasestokes’ and I just said, ‘Hi Chase Stokes,'” she teased. “We’re manifesting, baby.”The Tennessee