Renée Zellweger and Kenny Chesney took the world by surprise when they got married after knowing each other for five months. But it was perhaps even more surprising when the two decided to have the marriage annulled just four months later. Zellweger cited fraud as the reason in the related papers, and after media scrutiny of her use of the word "fraud", she qualified the use of the term, stating that it was "simply legal language and not a reflection of Kenny's character." Chesney later commented, "The only fraud that was committed was me thinking that I knew what it was like ... that I really understood what it was like to be married, and I really didn't."

She rose to fame as the winner of the fourth season of American Idol in 2005.