“I don’t like the word regret,” Rimes told E! News’ Giuliana Rancic in December 2012. “I wish I handled it differently because I wish I could have been better for me, for Brandi, for Dean, for Eddie, and for everyone else.”

Cibrian “reacted the way that I reacted too, but he reacted in his own way, and I allowed him to do that,” she said. “He had so much more to deal with than I did. I had a marriage. He had a marriage and children. I can’t even fathom that.”

About her relationship with her stepchildren, Rimes told Pride Source in 2011, “I guess if loving them with all my heart and taking care of them when they’re with us and being there for them is overbearing, then I guess I am—but I don’t think that’s the definition of overbearing.

“I grew up in a family where my parents divorced when I was 14. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. I know my mom and dad weren’t meant to be together other than to have me (laughs), and I’m totally cool with it. The kids are our main priority, and we have a house full of love and I have a great relationship with them.”