Her ex-husband did live in Texas.
Jillian Lavin sacrificed her career, burned through her savings, and moved halfway across the country to the Lone Star State for love, only to be abandoned.
The singer, known online by her stage name Spritely, detailed the horrific ordeal in a now-viral TikTok video that has been viewed 2.3 million times, which she shared in song of his own heartbreak and pain.
LaVine said she thought the three-and-a-half-year relationship, which flourished in California, was “amazing” — and she told New York Magazine’s The Cut that the two were planning a future together.
That’s why she didn’t hesitate to spend thousands of dollars to clean up her life when the time came.
But just two months after leaving Los Angeles for the unknown mobster, he broke up with her in a terse handwritten note, blaming everything on their “incompatibility.”
“It’s so disappointing, the damn text was so short,” said LaVine, who now lives in Florida.
“I knew when he pulled it out of his pocket. Who just hands you a note and says, ‘I think that says it all’?” she continued.
She told the magazine that earlier this year, her boyfriend expressed a desire to move back to Texas and live on his family’s farm. That’s not a shock — she knew Golden State wasn’t his long-term goal.
“He was more of a Texas farm boy, and I was a musician who wanted to live in the big city,” she explains.
“Ultimately, we compromised and chose farmland close to his family’s home in a major Texas city. This sparked a discussion about what our future together would look like.”
She thought he was going to propose and he was the one, which is why she was blindsided by the breakup.
“People are speculating: Is there another woman? Did his family persuade him to give up? No, knowing him, there is no other influence,” she said.
“He said he no longer loved me when we moved to Texas together and I think he suppressed those concerns for so long that this happened and I think it’s his fault ”
LaVine said the heartbreaking split left her “heartbroken” and led to her taking a two-month break from social media. Eventually, she felt she needed to “tell people what was going on.”
Sharing her story online opened the floodgates for viewers to share their own bad breakups and condemn her ex’s behavior. But she also told The Cut that self-proclaimed relationship experts on social media called her “crazy” and accused her of following her ex-boyfriend to another state.
“He made you move and then handed you a note?!?!” one person wrote on TikTok. “I think it was terrible that my ex-husband asked me to move back in with his mom. You win.”
“The true definition of ‘follow your dreams not your boyfriend,'” another commented.
One viewer said: “Push the algorithm so this thing goes viral and you can make all your money back from this.”
“1. I’m sorry, but 2. Is this on Spotify?” someone else wrote, referring to the singing of her tragic story.
Two months after they parted ways, she said she was “much better” although “every day is a battle”.
As for her ex, despite her internet fame, she hasn’t heard from him yet. Raven said she would be happy to trade it in for a new one.
“I would probably take it all back and just want to be with him,” she admitted as her notoriety went viral.
“In hindsight, he wasn’t the best fit for me, but I couldn’t be happier with my little life with him. It’s probably the most successful thing I’ve ever seen in my career, but that’s just my career,” she said.