Carly Waddell Denies Dissing Ex Evan Bass With ‘Your Friends Like Me More,’ Teases More Personal Song About Their Kids

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Music has helped Carly Waddell heal following her divorce from Evan Bass in more ways than one.“I’ve been a singer my whole life.

When I wasn’t in a show, I was waiting tables until my next show. So I didn’t really know who I was besides that. And then I became a wife and then I became a mom and I kind of lost that part of me,” the 37-year-old Bachelor alum exclusively told Us Weekly on the “Here for the Right Reasons” podcast. “Before I got divorced, when I knew I didn’t wanna have any more children, I was like, ‘I wanna get back to me.’ And when I asked the question, ‘Who am I?

What do I love?’ It’s music, it’s singing, it’s writing.”Waddell’s first single, “Your Friends Like Me More,” and music video drop on Monday, May 1, and despite the sassy lyrics — “I don’t care who you’re dating now / Your friends tell me she’s a big step down / I ain’t keeping score, but you should know your friends like me more” — she promises Us that she’s not throwing shade at Bass, 40.“I’m not Taylor Swift,” Waddell told Us with a laugh. “And I love that she writes about her life, but I was coming out of a divorce and that’s literally the last thing I wanted to think about.

People can say whatever they want — they’re going to anyway. But no, I didn’t want that. I remember when I sat down with these writers and they were like, ‘We should write about your divorce.’ And I was like, ‘No, ew.