Michelle Branch arrested for domestic assault following Patrick Carney split

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Michelle Branch was arrested for domestic assault on Thursday night (August 11).The arrest follows Branch’s split from Patrick Carney after three years of marriage.

On Wednesday (August 10), the singer tweeted and then deleted a comment on the Black Keys‘ drummer’s alleged infidelity, writing, “Just found out my husband cheated on me … while I was home with our 6-month-old daughter.”According to Rolling Stone, police were called to the couple’s Nashville, Tennesse home yesterday in response to a domestic disturbance.

Branch told officers at the scene that she’d slapped Carney in the face “one to two times”. The singer’s bail was set at $1,000 and she was released on the same day of the arrest.On Thursday evening, Branch spoke to People in a statement about her recent split from Carney. “To say that I am totally devastated doesn’t even come close to describing how I feel for myself and for my family.

The rug has been completely pulled from underneath me and now I must figure out how to move forward,” Branch added. “With such small children, I ask for privacy and kindness.”Carney has not yet publicly commented on that or the separation.Branch and Carney met one another at a Grammys party in 2015, and began dating while working together on Branch’s 2017 album ‘Hopeless Romantic’, which Carney co-wrote and co-produced.