Ever wonder why Carrie Underwood never showed up in one of those ubiquitous, celebrity-stuffed election PSAs (which saw everyone from Justin Timberlake to Jennifer Aniston to Ron Howard to Canadian Ryan Reynolds trying to rock the vote)? As election fever grips the U.S., the country singer reveals why she lets other stars take the wheel when it comes to political stumping.
In a new interview with TV Guide, Underwood shares her disdain for famous people who share their political preferences with the public.
"There is someone I do support, but I don't support publicly," she tells the mag. "I lose all respect for celebrities when they back a candidate...It's saying that the American public isn't smart enough to make their own decisions. I would never want anybody to vote for anything or anybody just because I told them to."
Though she keeps her political affiliations under wraps, Underwood seems to have no problems publicly dishing on her ex-boyfriends. In the December issue of Elle, she says that she hasn’t spoken to her former beau (and current Jessica Simpson pelvic partner) "since, like, May." She also apologized for previously implying that Romo still calls her.
"I might be mad too if somebody said my boyfriend was calling some other girl. So I can definitely see where she would be coming from," Underwood says of Simpson’s reported reaction.
"It was something that was said in passing, and I would never mean to say anything to hurt anybody or stir up anything, because I'm just not about drama...at all."
Yes, the girl who bitterly revealed to the press that she and Gossip Girl star Chace Crawford broke up over text message obviously hates drama.
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