Reba McEntire‘s entire world, both personally and professionally, came crashing down in 2015, when she unexpectedly got divorced from her husband, and business manager, Narvel Blackstock, after 25 years of marriage. The singer could have retreated, licked her wounds and quietly stepped away from the spotlight, but instead, she found a new way to move forward, as much for her staff as for herself.

“The divorce was not my choice. I did not want it. At all,” Reba shared on her new Living & Learning with Reba McEntire podcast (via Sounds Like Nashville). “So, it was left up to me of, ‘Okay. kid, how you gonna handle this?’ So, when the three people who were literally taking care of me and my company, my career, left me … [I thought], ‘What the hell am I gonna do?’ And so it was kind of a, as I call it, ‘come to Jesus’ meeting. And I had to gather my wherewithal, put my feelings aside, and go forward.

“So it was forging a path that I didn’t want any part of, but I had to do it,” she continued. “But not only for myself, but for my band, my crew, my organization. The RBI [Reba Business Inc.]. I had to say, ‘Okay, this has happened. We all know what’s happened, ’cause you were all involved. Now we’ve got to move forward.’”

Reba was joined on the podcast by her good friend, actress Melissa Peterman, who appeared in the Reba sitcom, airing from 2001 to 2007 – and Reba hopes is soon her co-star again.

“Well if it was up to us, we would definitely be doing a reboot, ’cause everybody’s 100 percent onboard, ready to go,” Reba shared on Good Morning America. “We don’t care if it’s a family reunion, if it’s a two-hour special, or if it’s a total reboot. We just want to get back together, because we have so many more stories to tell.”

Reba moved her tour, originally scheduled for this year, to 2021. She also just released her 1990 Rumor Has It album, which is available for purchase at Reba.com.