Who is Jillian Lavin? Wife of TikTok couple from Texas whose divorce song went viral

TIKTOK’s viral breakup song tells the story of a woman who blew her savings to move to Texas with her boyfriend, only to be dumped.

The video made by heartbroken Jillian Lavin has been viewed more than 2 million times on TikTok.

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The new popular way to get over a breakup is to make a song about it and post it on TikTok.

That’s exactly what Jillian Lavin did, and it earned her a lot of support from the internet, with thousands of viewers flocking to her comments section to shame her ex-boyfriend for blindsiding her.

The video she made was posted on X and soon after everyone had an opinion about her story.

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Jillian Lavin’s breakup

Jillian Lavin is a content creator and singer who performs under her stage name Spritely.

She is known for creating a viral breakup video that was first shared on TikTok on October 14, 2024.

According to the lyrics of Jillian’s song, she had been dating a man in Los Angeles for more than three years when he told her he wanted to move back to Texas to be closer to his father.

Jillian decided to move across the country to join him, spending hundreds of dollars on moving and other costs to set up their new home, completely depleting her savings.

When her boyfriend returned from a family vacation, he handed her a handwritten letter explaining why they were not right for each other and that their three-year relationship was no more.

Jillian was heartbroken and eventually moved back home to live with her mother in Florida.

According to the singer, her boyfriend claimed in the note that they “had nothing in common.”

“How? Why didn’t I notice it this whole time?” Lavin wondered.

“Three and a half years of happiness. We’ve been incompatible this whole time and haven’t had anything in common for three and a half years?

“Wow, what a surprise. Thanks for letting me know,” Lavin sang sarcastically, as snippets of himself crying throughout the video.

Jillian captioned her viral TikTok: “Anyway, how are you?”

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What is the reaction to Jillian’s story?

Viewers of the story were firmly on Jillian’s side, shaming her ex-boyfriend for being inconsiderate of the sacrifices she had made.

But there have been some not so sympathetic comments and people have taken to the internet to shame Jillian for the unfortunate position she finds herself in.

Those viewers have criticized Jillian for using all her resources on a man she is not married to.

One person wrote on

Another took to TikTok and wrote: “Boyfriends aren’t husbands.

“Don’t build your life around someone who isn’t truly committed to you.”

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Some people even believed that her boyfriend’s sudden reason for her divorce was because he was dating someone else.

Jillian strongly denies this, telling The Cut: “People are speculating: was there another woman? Did his family talk him out of it?

“No, knowing him there is no other influence.

“It was purely a decision he made, and I think he denied it for so long because he’s so out of touch with his emotions.

“He said that the moment we moved to Texas together, he no longer loved me, and I think it’s his fault for bottling up these worries long enough for that to happen.”