Dierks Bentley Admits He and Wife Don’t Sleep Together: ‘We’ve Moved Beyond That’

Dierks Bentley says he and his wife of nearly 20 years, Cassidy, no longer share a bedroom — and it’s by choice. The 49-year-old country singer revealed the unusual arrangement during a candid chat on Bobby Bones’ BobbyCast this week.

“When I do get off the road, it’s like the No. 1 priority,” Bentley said of his sleep routine once he returns to family life. “My wife will be like, ‘How’d you sleep last night?’ And we don’t even sleep in the same room right now anymore. We’ve moved beyond that.”

Bentley explained that his sleep quirks — including his reliance on three perfectly positioned pillows — clash with Cassidy’s habit of dozing off instantly. “All of a sudden she’ll jerk,” he said. “I’m like, ‘You got to be kidding me. You’re already out?’”

On the podcast, Bentley said that years ago he decided to “separate church and state” by getting rid of their shared bed. Instead, he set up two platform beds with separate mattresses and box springs so Cassidy could “move around all she wants.” More recently, Cassidy has been opting for the couch or a spare room when Bentley’s restless sleep gets too disruptive.

“It’s terrible,” Bentley admitted, before noting the couple’s plan to return to the same bedroom by year’s end.

The pair married in December 2005 and share three children.

“We met in eighth grade, back in Arizona. It’s a pretty crazy story of just going back and forth with the right time or the wrong time, or right place, wrong time, all that stuff,” Dierks previously told The Boot. “Finally, I was playing a show in Las Vegas, and opening for George Strait, and she walked on the bus. I kind of knew that that was the moment.”

Dierks shared with People in 2007, “I had a crush on her the whole time, but I wasn’t cool enough. I was way too immature and into drinking beer and guns and blowing things up.” Cassidy echoed his sentiment, adding, “He was just trouble.”