Dierks Bentley and his wife, Cassidy Black, haven’t slept in the same bed for years — but it’s not for lack of trying.
The country star confessed he’s a “horrible sleeper” on Tuesday’s episode of the “Bobbycast” podcast. “My wife will be like, how’d you sleep last night? And we don’t sleep in the same room right now anymore,” he said.
Elsewhere in the interview, he added, “So years ago, I decided to separate church and state, and I got rid of our bed, and I’ve got two platform beds and two box springs and two mattresses.”
Bentley explained that they each have their own duvets, and “there’s a clear line. You can see the floor between her bed and mine. So it’s like independent suspension.”
He continued, “Why would you have a truck with leaf springs when you can have independent suspension? So she can move around all she wants. And if you feel like you really need extra sleep, you can kind of push her bed a little further over.”
Bentley lamented that recently, his wife of nearly 20 years has moved out of their room entirely.
“Lately, she’s like, because I’m just such an animal, it’s terrible,” Bentley divulged. “She’s like, she’s sleeping on the couch now” in an “extra room we have” in their Nashville home.
“Even last night, we’re like, we’ve got to get this back on track when I get off the road,” he shared. “We got to get back to the same room.”
The “Gold” hitmaker, 49, also lamented how quickly his wife, also 49, can fall asleep, while he has “to be positioned exactly the correct way.”
“I’m just thinking about the process of getting to fall asleep, and all of a sudden she’ll jerk,” he explained.
“I’m like, ‘You gotta be kidding me. You’re already out?’ She’s already asleep like that. And so, she’ll move a tiny bit, I feel it.”
The longtime couple, who tied the knot in 2005, share daughters Evalyn Day and Jordan Catherine, along with son Knox.
Bentley is nowhere near the first celebrity to admit to such an arrangement. Songstress Bette Midler, 79, and “Shark Tank” personality Barbara Corcoran, 76, have both confessed to sleeping in separate bedrooms from their respective spouses.
“My husband snores,” Midler told Entertainment Tonight in 2024. She and Martin von Haselberg married in 1994, and the singer said splitting at bedtime is the secret to their decades-long union.
Corcoran told Jenna Bush Hager during a 2024 appearance on the “Today” show that she and husband Bill have “had a separate bedroom” for “like 40 years.” The arrangement ensures that “sex is a short thing,” she later said on the “Jamie Kern Lima Show.”
Sarah Paulson, 50, credited entirely separate dwellings for her lasting relationship with Holland Taylor. “We don’t live together, that’s the sort of secret,” she said on a 2024 episode of the “Smartless” podcast.
“Today” co-host Carson Daily also admitted that his secret to his successful marriage was “sleep divorce.”
“It’s been good for us,” he said of he and his wife, Siri Pinter, noting they “both secretly love it.”
