Fans got more insight into Reba and Rex’s romance when he was a guest on her podcast the following year.
During their discussion, they looked back at how they’ve leaned on each other during tough times, which include the March 2020 death of Reba’s mother Jacqueline McEntire after her battle with cancer.
“It was later on that I was texting you, and I told you about mamma—that we just found out that she had bladder cancer,” the musician said on the October 2021 episode of Living & Learning. “And you said, ‘Hey, you just feel free to call me anytime you need to talk.’ And I just quit texting and then we’ve been talking ever since.”
Rex also remembered how Reba called him and offered her condolences after his mother died in 1998.
“We talked for about 25 minutes, and I never forgot it,” he added. “It was amazing, it was uplifting, it was really special and little did I know 20 years later, 21 years later I’d be doing the same thing with her on the phone.”
