Ashley Cooke | Breakthrough Country Artist on Love, Loss & Her Music Journey!
Off The Vine with Kaitlyn Bristowe
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🗓️ 2 December 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
#898. Ashley Cooke has lived a life of highs, heartbreak, and everything in between — from moving 19 times before 18, writing songs at 11, to hitting #1 on country radio. On today’s episode of Off the Vine, she sits down with Kaitlyn to open up about her new project ACE, her duet with Brett Young, navigating family health struggles and her own rare heart condition — all while performing on some of the biggest stages in music. She also gives a sweet glimpse into her new romance and how love fits into her life on the road.
Honest, funny, and raw, this episode is a front-row seat to Ashley’s journey like you’ve never heard before.
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EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:
- (3:05) Ashley spills on moving to LA at 10, forming a country duo with her sister at 12, and juggling homeschool life like a pro.
- (7:34) She opens up about the wild mix of gratitude, disbelief, and “wait…is this real?” moments when Your Place hit #1.
- (12:28) Family health scares, her own rare heart diagnosis, and heartbreak — Ashley shares how she stayed strong through it all.
- (17:25) Performing on The Bachelorette with Brett Young.
- (27:56) Her new Project ACE Revealed and how these songs are like a musical diary of her life.
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| 1:01.8 | You're listening to Off the Vine with Caitlin Bristow. |
| 1:06.4 | Hey, Vino's real quick. If you are listening right now, which obviously you are or you |
| 1:10.5 | wouldn't be hearing this, can you hit the subscribe or follow button on whatever platform you're on? Please, that one simple thing helps more than you even realize it allows me to keep growing on this podcast and making these episodes the best they can possibly be obviously for you. That's the only favorite I'm going to ever ask. Okay. It truly means the world |
| 1:28.4 | to me. Thank you. Now let's get into it. Hey everybody. Welcome to Off the Vine. I'm your host, |
| 1:32.5 | Caitlin Bristow. And today I had a lovely conversation with Ashley Cook. I feel like we're new |
| 1:36.6 | friends. You can kind of get that vibe while we talk in this interview. And I feel like you sit |
| 1:40.8 | at home and you feel like you're one of our friends. And that's what I love about this podcast. So we pull back a bunch of layers of Ashley's life. She has lived, I think, I don't know, 19 different lives. She moved through 19 homes before the age of 19, which is crazy. Obviously, that's going to shape who a person is. She's been through a lot of heartbreak and loss. And I just asked all the questions that you would want to know from her. So enjoy this conversation with Ashley Cook. Okay, your story is crazy. I'm just like when I was |
| 2:06.5 | researching you, which I like to call stalking, because I have to do some heavy duty stocking. |
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