{"id":633905,"date":"2026-09-23T22:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T22:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/633905\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T22:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T22:38:12","slug":"hayley-williams-pays-tribute-to-ex-husband-chad-gilbert-following-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/633905\/","title":{"rendered":"Hayley Williams Pays Tribute to Ex-Husband Chad Gilbert Following Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tHayley Williams<\/a> has spoken out about the death of her former husband, New Found Glory<\/a> guitarist Chad Gilbert<\/a>, who died Sunday. In a social media tribute post, the Paramore<\/a> singer admitted she put a pause on commenting for a few days because she \u201chad not known what to say or if it\u2019s appropriate,\u201d given their estrangement. But Williams said she was ultimately compelled to put her voice forward to honor Gilbert\u2019s impact on the music scene they shared.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe marriage between Gilbert and Williams was a short one \u2014 they wed in 2016 and divorced the following year \u2014 and it did not appear to end altogether amicably. But the couple were together a much long time than the marital record would indicate, with their relationship having begun in 2008,.<\/p>\n

\n\tWilliams\u2019 tribute on her Instagram Stories reads:<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHave not known what to say or if it\u2019s appropriate. But I feel sure now that I want to bc life is made of the paths we cross and the reasons we cross them are infinite.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cChad is indeed a legend in the scene and my time connected to him taught me a lot. He introduced me to people that continue to shape my life in beautiful ways, and to music and culture that has made life a lot richer.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere isn\u2019t much that hasn\u2019t already been said about what he contributed to the musical world a lot of us grew up in. His influence and attitude guided the genre forward. His passion for fostering the community was inspiring and sticks with me.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI will forever be grateful that from him I gained a deeper understanding and a reverence for the community and the culture of hardcore.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSending love and my sympathies to his family, NFG fam, and all his friends.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tIn a joint announcement when they split in 2017, Gilbert and Williams collectively said, \u201c\u201cMarriage is not for the faint of heart. There is a challenge to trying to understand your own heart in the context of a relationship\u2026 and there is goodness in considering another heart, even in spite of your own. Love is an absolute risk. And it\u2019s up to each of us to stay hopeful even when the outcome isn\u2019t what we\u2019d originally hoped for.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hayley Williams has spoken out about the death of her former husband, New Found Glory guitarist Chad Gilbert,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,269120,93,47035,61,60,269121,56323],"class_list":["post-633905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-chad-gilbert","tag-entertainment","tag-hayley-williams","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-new-found-glory","tag-paramore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}