Jana Kramer and Ex-Husband Johnathon Schaech’s Relationship Timeline

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Jana Kramer and Ex-Husband Johnathon Schaech’s Relationship Timeline

Before Jana Kramer’s relationship with Mike Caussin made headlines, the One Tree Hill alum was infamously married for 12 days to Johnathon Schaech. The candid “Whine Down” podcast host met the actor, who is 14 years older than her, when they filmed the 2008 movie Prom Night. While Kramer was previously married to Michael Gambino for less than one year — later detailing the physical abuse she suffered in the relationship — Schaech was married to Christina Applegate from 2001 to 2007. The horror film's production began shortly after his divorce from Applegate was finalized. “Once or twice when we were fighting, I might have got upset and [called you] Christina,” Schaech admitted to Kramer during a “Whine Down” appearance in 2022. “I was trying to fill that void of my broken heart that I had. So I would accidentally call you by that name when we really would get angry at one another. And you’d be like, ‘See!’ … That was the one thing that I really wanted to tell you — I tried to make you something that you weren’t. I wasn’t healed. I hadn’t taken time to heal myself from that broken heart. And I just wanted you to shine and not me to shine at the same time. And I was so happy that I was able to do something with you that brought all these qualities that you had. But I forgot about me and that’s not fair to you.” Kramer and Schaech dated on and off before they wed in July 2010. [jwplayer ib1pvzpM-zhNYySv2] “Jana, you're an incredible human being. I wanted that to be part of my life. I thought that you would heal me and make my life better. And I thought I had to marry you to get that. So it wasn't just a party to me,” he told her in 2022 after she referred to their wedding as a “party.” The That Thing You Do! star continued: “It was much deeper for me. But, you know, I think that we weren't ready. … I wanted the best in our marriage, I really wanted to make it work.” After the duo called it quits less than a month into their marraige, Kramer was briefly engaged to Brantley Gilbert. She met future husband Caussin in 2014. While they split less than one year into their romance when he was caught cheating, they reconciled and exchanged vows in May 2015. After welcoming daughter Jolie, the pair separated in 2016 as the former NFL player checked into rehab for sex addiction. Kramer and Caussin renewed their vows in December 2017 and welcomed son Jace in 2018. They called it quits for good in April 2021 when she discovered his alleged infidelity again. Schaech, for his part, married Julie Solomon in 2013. They welcomed son Camden later that year and daughter Lily in 2020. Scroll through for a timeline of Kramer and Schaech’s ups and downs:

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2008

While Schaech was hesitant when he met Kramer on set of 2008’s Prom Night, she pursued him.

“We met on that movie, but you were just kind of getting out of a previous marriage, so I was very much, like, wanting to chase you,” Kramer recalled on “Whine Down” in 2022. “And you’re like, ‘I’m never getting married.’ And I’m just like, ‘Oh, no, but choose me, like, love me.’”

Less than one year into their relationship, they moved in together.

“I’ll never forget when I opened her closet and there was hardly any clothes in there. You know, we had to go somewhere and I was just, like, so used to my ex having [a room of clothes],” Schaech said of Applegate.

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2009

The twosome got engaged on an ice skating rink in Maryland in 2009. During her podcast with the actor in 2022, Kramer revealed that her then-boyfriend was the one who got her into singing.

“He goes, ‘I will propose to you when you learn ‘Angel From Montgomery’ on guitar,’” she recalled. “And I went home and I was like, ‘How am I gonna learn this as fast as I can?’”

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2010

The duo got married on July 4, 2010. Kramer’s One Tree Hill costars (and then-couple) Austin Nichols and Sophia Bush were among the guests in attendance at the Michigan wedding.

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2010

While news of Kramer and Schaech’s split broke one month after their nuptials, it was later revealed that they called it quits just 12 days into the marriage.

“Jana and Johnathon have agreed to dissolve their marriage,” her rep said at the time. “Jana is humbled by the outpouring of support from her fans, friends, and family.”

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2011

The pair’s divorce was finalized in June 2011.

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2016

 Schaech addressed their split during an Ask Me Anything on Reddit. 

"Jana and I had a wedding but we were never married. It simply came down to this: She wasn't ready to be married," he wrote in April 2016. "She wanted a singing career and that was what she was focused on."

That same year, the exes reconnected when Us Weekly exclusively revealed that Caussin had admitted to cheating on Kramer. The then-spouses had just welcomed daughter Jolie when they separated amid the scandal. 

“You said, ‘I heard you got Dancing with the Stars, I’m really sorry about your husband cheating on you. I know you have a beautiful baby, and if you need anything, I’m here for you and my wife,’” Kramer recalled in 2022, noting that Schaech previously ignored her outreach. “And I just remember being so thankful in that moment. Because I was going to L.A. with my 4-month-old daughter, my ex was in rehab. … And so he’s like, ‘If you need any baby stuff,’ and I’m like, ‘I don’t know how long I’m gonna be on Dancing With the Stars, [but] I would love a crib, so Jolie doesn’t have to be in a pack and play.’ … So my tour manager got in contact with his wife, Julie, and [I] pretty much haven’t left Julie’s side since then. She’s the coolest chick in America. She’s so much fun. And you guys became family.”

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2021

Kramer and Schaech’s friendship hit a rough patch just weeks before she and Caussin split for good. 

“I had to explain this photo to my son today,” the Time of Your Life alum tweeted in March 2021 alongside his wedding photo with Kramer. “I told him I’ve been married three times. But I got it right when I married his mother.”

The Holiday Fix Up actress, for her part, made it clear she wasn’t happy about the post.

“So my ex-husband, because I guess he technically was a husband, so he tweeted out a picture of our wedding day. But he tags me in it … first of all, why are you tagging me in it?” she said on her podcast in April 2021. “We’ve been great, but it kinda rubbed me wrong. Like, why are you posting a photo of our wedding day? That’s from the past. … I didn’t want to see that photo on my Twitter. And now you’re tagging me in it. So I don’t want other people to see that photo. Yeah, you can Google it if you’re searching and you wanna see it. It bothered me.”

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2021

Kramer said via an Instagram Q&A that she feels like she was only married once.

“That was a real marriage … The first was when I was 19 and it was [by] Elvis, and no one knew until he tried to kill me,” she wrote at the time. “And the second was, like, a week. I hardly call any of those a marriage. What I do call a marriage is putting in the time to fight for it and I did that the last time. And one day I believe I’ll end up with the one I’ve always meant to be with. [Someone] to fight for and [who will] respect our marriage.”

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2022 reunion on the podcast

One year after their falling out over the tweet, Kramer revealed she had been on edge when she spent time with Solomon as she worried Schaech would be there. The twosome, who admitted to blocking each other on social media, made amends on her podcast in April 2022.

“I think it was so much beyond the pettiness of the Twitter [situation] and the whole, ‘Well, I didn’t like that he posted our wedding photo, and why would he do that?’ It was still the hurt of the, like, the way back past,” Kramer said of her interview with Schaech. “He's got his family and friends here and we'll never be that unit — I don't think — that we were in L.A. because we didn't have [anyone else]. We just had each other, all of us. But at least now … I can go to their house and it’s not, like, going to be any kind of awkward situation. I respect him. … I love his family. I love his heart and what he does and I'm glad that the air I feel, like, [is] cleared.”