LeAnn Rimes dove deep into some nitty-gritty topics in her Flow Space cover story published Monday (July 7), from the precarious beginnings of her relationship with husband Eddie Cibrian to the dental issues that led to her teeth falling out mid-concert in a viral moment last month.

Though the singer/songwriter and her partner have been married for 14 years at this point, their romance got off to a rocky start. Rimes has long been candid about having begun her relationship with Cibrian — whom she met on the set of the Lifetime movie Northern Lights — while both parties were still married to other people, and in the new piece, Rimes opens up about the backlash she faced in light of the affair more than a decade ago.

“I realized very quickly that there are a lot of women who’ve been hurt,” she told the publication. “Like, I’ve been on both sides of that coin — I’ve been cheated on, too, so I know that feeling.

“But so many women don’t know what to do with that anger,” Rimes continued. “I was a target that was just easily projected upon. And once I realized that, things got a lot easier. Instead of taking it so personally, it’s like, look: This is not all my pain to carry. I know what I’m responsible for in the situation and making amends for that. But you know, the world’s pain is not mine to carry, and I think that really got thrown at me for a long time.”

Rimes was previously married for eight years to Dean Sheremet, while Cibrian shares two sons with ex-wife Brandi Glanville. Throughout their relationship, Rimes says that Cibrian has been her support system amid various health issues, including her long battle with psoriasis and her more recent struggles with perimenopause.

The musician has also dealt with various dental problems, as evidenced during a June concert that found Rimes rushing offstage after feeling her front dental bridge pop out of her mouth mid-song. “There wasn’t a f—ing thing I could do about it except either walk off or just hold my teeth in and sing, so I just ran with it,” she later said of the moment in an Instagram video. “The show can go on, even in the midst of sheer, utter embarrassment.”

To Flow Space, Rimes opened up about the many dental surgeries and oral pain she’s faced since getting a botched set of veneers when she was about 16. “I look at my pictures from that time, and my face was so different — it was just so swollen,” she told the publication. “Oh, it was awful. I was in chronic pain for, like, two-and-a-half years.”

See Rimes on the cover of Flow Space below.