She was sitting by the door one night with a gun, waiting for her abusive man to come home from jail.
She once stalked an ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend and confronted them in a pool hall. It wasn't pretty.
She threatened another guy who cheated on her, saying she'd burn down his house with kerosene.
Miranda Lambert is one tough cookie. At least in her songs. She makes up those stories, people. Really she does. She's not some wacko scouring Nashville with her rifle, looking for her lover in all the wrong places.
The craziest thing she ever did to a boyfriend -- that she's willing to talk about, anyway -- was in high school, said Lambert, who makes her first Twin Cities headline appearance Saturday at Mystic Lake Casino. On the phone one night, he told her he planned to stay home for the evening -- but when he mentioned he was ironing a shirt, she got suspicious.
"There was this nasty bar that I knew he was going to," Lambert recalled. "So I drove with my friends to see his car, and I put a picture of myself on his windshield so when he came out he knew I was there. And the next day I dressed up really cute and broke up with him."
By her count, she has five ex-boyfriends but "only one or two would say I'm crazy." And not all her exes live in Texas, her home state.
Her father, who was a narcotics cop/aspiring country singer, started a private-investigation business with her mother. In fact, they were hired by Paula Jones' litigation team to investigate Bill Clinton in the 1990s. So Lambert was exposed to two things at a young age: guns and cheating couples.