Rucker - who found a home for some of those personal songs on Carolyn’s Boy, his first album in six years - and Beth, 56, announced their split in July 2020, saying at the time that they’d remain “close friends and parenting partners.” The two share daughter Daniela, 22, and son Jack, 18 (Rucker is also dad to daughter Carolyn, 28, from a previous relationship). I’m not a big talk-to-you guy, but I can sit down and write a song about it.”
“You try to express those feelings, and it’s hard to say and it’s hard to put that on paper,” Rucker, 57, tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue. When Darius Rucker and his wife Beth split in 2020 after 20 years of marriage, he turned to songwriting to help process his feelings. Taylor Hill/FilmMagic Darius Rucker and Beth Leonard Rucker in Nashville in November 2017
