How Lance Armstrong Really Feels About His Ex-Fiancée Sheryl Crow

For three years, country superstar Sheryl Crow and cyclist Lance Armstrong were a total power couple. But that pressure seemed to get the best of the pair, resulting in their separation five months after Armstrong proposed to Crow.

According to Armstrong, their break-up came after they realized they wanted different things. In his book "Lance", the former cyclist explained that he wasn't ready to settle down. "She wanted marriage, she wanted children; and not that I didn't want that, but I didn't want that at the time because I had just gotten out of a marriage, I'd just had kids," he explained (via US Weekly). "Yet we're up against her biological clock – the pressure is what cracked it."

That's not to say he has hard feelings for his ex-fiancée, recalling that it was difficult to pull their relationship as a power couple off. "It was a good ride. She was a great lady. Obviously, it didn't work out, but I think and I hope she's happy. I'm happy," he told Howard Stern on his SiriusXM radio show (via Entertainment Tonight).

"To her credit, she was a stay-at-home – one of the biggest rockstars – but she was a great partner," he continued.

Sheryl Crow, on the other hand, wants to keep the past in the past. 

"It probably sounds really insulting, but this is one of those I-don't-give-a-f**k moments: I don't think about him," she told Rolling Stone, referring to the revelation that Armstrong had been cheating for the majority of his sporting career (via Sports Casting). "It's a nuisance when I'm asked about him because they weren't the happiest of days," she continued. "People still attach me to him, and it's gross. I don't really want to talk about that."

Although, as the Guardian notes, she did have to talk about her ex-fiancé during a criminal investigation into the cheating scandal. Detailed in the book "Wheelmen: Lance Armstrong, the Tour de France and the Greatest Sports Conspiracy Ever," it's claimed that Crow saw Armstrong have a blood transfusion on a private jet. The book claims that the singer accepted an agreement by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that would protect her from criminal prosecution so she could act as a witness.