22 November 2025<\/time>\n <\/p>\nBrandi Carlile broke down in tears after her eldest child admitted a fear of not having parents if the US Supreme Court changed the law on marriage equality.<\/p>\n
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Brandi Carlile is mom to two daughters<\/p>\n
\nThe 44-year-old singer felt “ashamed” over not considering that Evangeline, 11, could think that.<\/p>\n
\nIt came as former Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk Kim Davis bid for an Obergefell v. Hodges challenge – which the Supreme Court rejected on November 10 – after she refused to issue same-sex licenses following the court’s landmark decision in 2015 because it conflicts with her religious beliefs as an Apostolic Christian.<\/p>\n
\nAsked when Brandi – who also has a seven-year-old daughter called Elijah with her 50-year-old wife Catherine Shepherd – last cried, she told The Guardian newspaper’s Saturday magazine: “I cried last week after talking about marriage equality with my daughters.<\/p>\n
\n“My oldest let slip that she believed that if the Supreme Court overturned Obergefell, she wouldn’t have parents anymore. I felt angry with my country and ashamed that I didn’t consider the possibility that she might think that.”<\/p>\n
\nElsewhere in her interview, the 11-time Grammy award-winner admitted she will forever say sorry to the children she “bullied” whilst in school.<\/p>\n
\nAsked who she would like to most apologise to, Brandi shared: “To kids I bullied in school. I have apologised, and I will continue to. To repay those things karmically, I will watch my kids’ hearts like a hawk for signs of hardening or any distortions of empathy that they might develop.”<\/p>\n
\nThe Story hitmaker says she feels her “happiest right now”.<\/p>\n
\nBrandi added: “I can see that I’m in a kind of sweet spot: my parents are alive, my kids are little, my wife is hot, and my body doesn’t hurt.”<\/p>\n
\nIn 2009, the artist met her wife over the phone when Catherine worked as a coordinator for The Beatles member Paul McCartney’s foundation.<\/p>\n
\nAfter they met in person in New York City the following year, they got married in 2012 – with three separate wedding ceremonies.<\/p>\n
\nBrandi and Catherine welcomed Evangeline in June 2014, and she was conceived using IVF, harvesting Brandi’s eggs for Catherine to carry.<\/p>\n
\nThe singer admitted she initially “struggled” with not being able to carry their daughter because of her big workload and busy touring schedule, but eventually accepted it.<\/p>\n
\nIn 2021, Brandi told People: “I made peace with knowing that there was some pioneering involved in what we were doing, to the point where there wasn’t even a two-mother template on a birth certificate yet. <\/p>\n
\n“There is now, but psychologically, all these things are really hard. And the high dive into parenting is a complicated leap to take anyway.”<\/p>\n
\nBrandi and Catherine welcomed Elijah into the world in March 2018, and she was conceived by artificial insemination, IUI, in 2017 because Catherine “struggled” with IVF hormones.<\/p>\n
\nAnd Brandi – who did not carry Elijah – felt more confident as a parent the second time around.<\/p>\n
\nIn January 2021, she wrote in an essay for Parents: “I never felt a pang of the anxiety, guilt, or confusion that we wrestled with the first time.<\/p>\n
\n“Eli was enormous. Almost 10 pounds! She was a dream baby. We call her \u2018joy bomb\u2019 because she has just exploded joy into our world, and she’s finally taught our serious little Evangeline how to belly laugh.\u201d<\/p>\n
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