LeAnn Rimes recently opened up about her affair with now-husband Eddie Cibrian.

Rimes, 42, and Cibrian, 52, were married in 2011 after meeting three years earlier on the set of the Lifetime movie “Northern Lights.”

The “Can’t Fight the Moonlight” singer told “Flow Space” she was the target of hate as a result.

“I realized very quickly that there are a lot of women who’ve been hurt,” Rimes said. “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… I was a target that was just easily projected upon. And once I realized that, things got a lot easier.”

Cibrian was married to Brandi Glanville, while Rimes was married to Dean Sheremet at the time of the affair.

She went on to say she didn’t take the backlash “personally,” and instead reminded herself that “this is not all my pain to carry.”

“I know what I’m responsible for in the situation and making amends for that,” she said. “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.”

In 2010, Rimes told PEOPLE she considered her affair with Cibrian “one of the most selfish things that I could possibly do, in hurting someone else.”

“I take responsibility for everything I’ve done. I hate that people got hurt, but I don’t regret the outcome,” she said.

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