Chase Stokes’ new cryptic social media messages have followers considering his relationship with Kelsea Ballerini is over once more.
“Don’t consider the media,” Stokes, 33, wrote through his Instagram Story on Thursday, November 20, elevating eyebrows amongst his followers. “I’m blocked, I did nothing improper.”
The Outer Banks star added, “Sorry” with a purple coronary heart emoji. “I attempted.”
Stokes continued to gasoline hypothesis that his remarks are associated to his and Ballerini’s relationship with a second cryptic add on Thursday.
“I’m sorry for many who believed in us,” he continued. “It’s what it’s. Onwards and upwards.”
Eagle-eyed followers observed that Stokes not “follows” Ballerini, 32, on Instagram. The “Peter Pan” singer doesn’t have Stokes on her Instagram “following” listing both after they each beforehand adopted one another.
Stokes’ seemingly pointed messages come hours after Ballerini attended the 2025 CMA Awards in Nashville solo following a European reunion with the actor final month.

Ballerini walked the purple carpet in what some followers speculated was a revenge costume, hinting at her relationship standing. The musician slayed the CMAs with a efficiency of her new single, “I Sit in Parks,” carrying one other red-hot robe.
Ballerini’s solo night time out sparked some concern about her and Stokes’ relationship because the pair have been usually noticed collectively on the awards present circuit whereas courting.
Stokes and Ballerini started courting in January 2023 after the “Cowboys Cry Too” singer finalized her divorce from Morgan Evans in November 2022.
Days after Stokes wished Ballerini a cheerful birthday in September, Us Weekly confirmed they referred to as it quits after two years of courting.

Chase Stokes, Kelsea Ballerini. Getty Photos (2)
“It was a tough cut up,” a supply solely advised Us on the time. “They’d been arguing lots just lately, and their communication wasn’t nice within the final month. They have been each touring a lot and making an attempt to juggle every thing, and the arguments piled up.”
The insider revealed that Ballerini “initiated the dialog,” however she and Stokes acted like “mature adults and had the identical understanding that they wanted area.”

“There’s nonetheless a whole lot of love between them,” the supply stated, including that Ballerini and Stokes are each “extraordinarily busy proper now.”
The pair’s breakup was short-lived, as Stokes and Ballerini have been noticed collectively close to Scotland’s Edinburgh Citadel on October 13.
“They each appeared actually blissful and smiley,” eyewitness Gemma Kennedy solely advised Us, noting she spoke with Stokes about his vacation in Scotland, which he was taking earlier than heading to Croatia to movie Outer Banks.
Kennedy famous that Stokes and Ballerini “have been very a lot loved-up and holding palms on the bar” when she noticed them.
Following their European reunion — which included a joint sighting in Croatia earlier this month — Us confirmed that Stokes and Ballerini have been “giving their relationship one other strive.”
“There’s nonetheless a whole lot of love there, so that they fell again into it very naturally,” a supply advised Us on November 10, including that the duo “by no means actually stopped being in contact after their transient cut up.”
In accordance with the insider, “Kelsea needed to present it one other likelihood and missed Chase lots,” whereas Stokes “by no means needed to interrupt up.”
“[He] at all times felt there was one thing between them and believed they only wanted time to chill off and determine issues out,” the supply defined.
To be able to reconnect, the insider advised Us that Stokes and Ballerini had “labored by way of a few of their ‘points’” and have been “hopeful this time round will probably be higher.”
Throughout their time aside, Ballerini began selling her newest EP, Mount Nice. When she posted a TikTok with a snippet from her tune “Individuals Pleaser,” Stokes was fast to name out haters on-line.
“What does it imply? Retains getting sadder / Was it sixteen that made me not matter?” Ballerini sang within the video as she modified from an off-the-cuff outfit right into a purple costume. “Was it Logan or Robby? Cheer captain named Carly / That made the lower deeper and tousled my physique? I’ll hold being sweeter, however at my demise / Name me folks pleaser and rattling in the event that they’re proper.”
Stokes responded to add through TikTok on Monday, November 17, writing, “These feedback are f***ing bizarre. Develop up.”
Whereas it’s unclear what feedback Stokes was referring to, one consumer claimed, “OBX followers have been posting nonsense and Chase referred to as them out so that they deleted it.”


