What Have I Done

Album: Spitfire (2013)
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Songfacts®:

  • This ballad from LeAnn Rimes' 14th studio album, Spitfire, finds her opening her heart about her affair with Eddie Cibrian, which ended both their first marriages. The couple went on to wed on April 22, 2011 at a private home in California. Rimes admitted in an interview with US TV journalist Katie Couric that she felt she'd been carrying a heavy weight since the cheating scandal and poured her emotions into the lyrics for this song. "I've carried a lot of guilt for a long time, I think," she said.
  • Rimes told Katie Couric that when her ex-husband, Dean Sheremet, first heard the song, he "probably knew what it was about before I did."
  • Bluegrass legend Alison Krauss and her Union station band member Dan Tyminsky add their voices to this tune.
  • Speaking with the New York Daily News, Rimes noted, "[I] actually wrote it about a friend, but it was almost foreseeing things that were going to happen in a way. I was still with Dean at the time, and he heard the song and knew it was about [Eddie and me] before I did."

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