Blake Shelton Going Forward with $2 Million Lawsuit Against ‘In Touch Weekly’

Ever since the National Enquirer exploded in popularity in the 1970s, tabloids have run amok with the wildest stories and, oddly enough, have avoided way more legal action than it seems they should have.

And that leads us to a 2015 In Touch Weekly cover story announcing that Blake Shelton was entering rehab.

The story alleged infidelity with regards to his marriage to Miranda Lambert and also claimed there was an intervention planned by his "close circle" of friends.

Blake says the story is "patently false" and, last October, filed suit against Bauer Publishing Company.

In the suit, Shelton is claiming defamation and false light invasion of privacy--a term new to me but, at the same time, pretty self-explanatory.

In February, Bauer moved to have the suit dropped in a California court, but a judge put the kibosh on that motion, pretty much saying that the headline on the cover of the issue in question is so far away from the article itself--about 30 pages--that reasonable conclusions about the veracity of said headline could be drawn by casual passersby.

In short, what they did was a no-no.

Blake Shelton's 12th studio album, If I'm Honest, will hit stores and online retailers May 20th.