Expect to learn a lot about LeAnn Rimes when her new album comes out. She says she’s finished writing and is headed to the studio to record next month. Rimes hasn’t released an album of original songs since her affair with now-husband Eddie Cibrian and divorce from Dean Sheremet in 2010.

Rimes tells the Associated Press, ”life inspires. Good and bad. Pretty and ugly.” She says she laid out her heart and soul on the record and adds that her personal life comes out in her music.

Rimes has been a tabloid magnet since the affair. She recently found a friend who can relate: Kim Kardashian. Rimes says they go to the same church and have hung out a couple times, adding they “click” on a certain level. Rimes says it’s great to have a friend in the industry, because she doesn’t have too many of those.

Do you think LeAnn’s tabloid frenzied life has overshadowed her music career?

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