Sheryl Crow Left La To ‘put Down Roots’ In Nashville After Cancer Battle, Lance Armstrong Breakup

Sheryl Crow opened up astir her determination to time off Los Angeles down to commencement a caller section of her life successful Tennessee.

During an question and reply pinch Variety published Wednesday, nan 63-year-old vocalist reflected connected really her move to Nashville astir 20 years agone was prompted by her abrupt crab test and achy breakup pinch then-fiance Lance Armstrong arsenic good arsenic nan nonaccomplishment of nan family that she would person had pinch him. 

"We each person those moments successful our life wherever we person to pivot," Crow said. "I was diagnosed pinch bosom crab successful 2006, and I moved present successful 2007."

Sheryl Crow decided to move from Los Angeles to Nashville aft uncovering herself astatine a crossroads successful her life. (Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

"I deliberation having travel retired of a narration wherever I thought I was gonna beryllium joined and was adjacent to nan kids that were gonna beryllium my stepkids, past sewage diagnosed — each 3 of those things made maine reassess," she added. 

SHERYL CROW ADMITS MOVING FROM LOS ANGELES TO TENNESSEE ‘SAVED MY LIFE’

"I conscionable looked astatine it and thought, ’I want to put down roots; I want to person a family,'" nan nine-time Grammy Award victor added. "My sisters unrecorded here, and my family each lived wrong 3 hours, and I conscionable decided to commencement shape two."

Crow and Armstrong began making love successful 2003 and announced their engagement successful 2005. However, nan musician and nan erstwhile master cyclist's narration ended erstwhile they called disconnected their engagement successful February 2006.

"It is for illustration a death," she told Diane Sawyer successful a July 2006 question and reply aft nan breakup. "And successful galore ways it's for illustration having portion of your life amputated, but you still person that phantom itch, you know, wherever you aftermath up, and I'll spot thing and think, 'Oh, I've sewage to make judge Lance is hep to this band. I've sewage to put it connected his iPod.' And past I remember, 'Oh, wait, you know, that's not my life.'"

Armstrong, 53, told writer Josh Wilcockson successful 2009 that their narration collapsed up complete her "biological clock" because she was successful her mid-40s and wanted children, according to nan New York Post. The erstwhile athlete, who was already begetter to boy Luke, 25, and copy daughters Grace and Isabelle, 23, whom he shares pinch his ex-wife Kristin Richard, said he did not want to person much children astatine that point.

Crow discovered she had crab 2 weeks aft splitting from Lance Armstrong. (Chris Polk/FilmMagic)

Two and half weeks aft their split, Crow underwent a regular mammogram, which she said that she almost skipped amid nan tumult successful her individual life. 

"I was going done a nationalist breakup and battling pinch paparazzi, each while trying to attraction connected my career," she wrote successful an 2022 op-ed for People magazine.

Crow continued, "I’ve ever been a patient personification who prioritized eating good and exercising, but astatine that clip it seemed intolerable to attraction connected thing different than getting done each time and keeping my profession going."

The singer's mammogram led to a biopsy which revealed that she had stage zero ductal carcinoma successful situ (DCIS) successful 1 breast. Crow subsequently underwent a lumpectomy successful some breasts and 7 weeks of radiation.

After curen nan vocalist went into remission, and she is now an advocator for early detection. (Taylor Hill/Getty Images)

In a November 2023 question and reply pinch People magazine, Crow shared that her cancer diagnosis was a pivotal infinitesimal successful her life that made her mobility what she had done to merit it. 

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"I clasp myself up to nan modular of being a really bully person, truthful to find myself lying connected a radiation array facing my mortality, location are a batch of questions that spell on pinch that: ‘What did I do wrong? Why do I merit this?’" she said.

After treatment, Crow went into remission and became a vocal advocator for early detection, stressing nan value of regular mammograms.

Crow is mother to sons Wyatt and Levi. (Paul Hiffmeyer/Disneyland Resort via Getty Images)

In April 2006, Crow relocated from LA to a agrarian municipality extracurricular Nashville, wherever she bought a 150-acre equine workplace named Cross Creek Farm.

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The "Everyday successful a Winding Road" vocalist adopted her oldest boy Wyatt, 18, successful April 2007, a small much than a twelvemonth aft her breakup pinch Armstrong and her crab diagnosis. She later adopted boy Levi, 14, successful 2010. 

In 2014, Crow sold Cross Creek Farm and bought a location successful West Nashville. She antecedently explained that she decided to move person to nan metropolis for her sons.

 "We were rather a ways retired and starting preschool," she told Architectural Digest in 2019. "It was time."

Crow said that Nashville is an perfect spot to raise her sons. (Getty Images)

The Missouri native told nan outlet that she built a barn and stables connected nan estate, which besides features a signaling studio, a saloon and a chapel.

While speaking pinch Variety, Crow said that she does not regret moving to Tennessee, and surviving successful Nashville keeps her grounded. However, she added that she had ever been down to world owed to her background.

"I deliberation it makes a immense quality erstwhile you’ve punched a clip clock," she said. "I was a schoolteacher aft college, and I didn’t make my first medium until I was 29."

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In 2023, Crow told nan New York Times that she felt Nashville was an perfect spot to raise her children retired of nan spotlight.

"It's awesome to person my kids turn up pinch nan mentality that they unrecorded successful a community, they beryllium their bully luck to helping different people, location are no paparazzi there," she said.