Chase Stokes feels "heartbroken" over his latest split from Kelsea Ballerini

Speaking to Us Weekly, a source explained: "Chase is heartbroken. It's been nonstop ups and downs."

The celebrity duo started dating back in January 2023, before splitting for the first time earlier this year. Speculation recently suggested that they had reconciled their differences and were giving their romance a second try, before Chase hinted at a second break-up earlier this month.

Chase recently alluded to the turbulence in his love life in a series of cryptic posts on social media.

The actor - who previously dated his Outer Banks co-star Madelyn Cline - wrote on Instagram: "I'm blocked, I did nothing wrong. Sorry. I tried"

In a subsequent post, Chase said: "I'm sorry for those who believed in us. It is what it is. Onwards and upwards."

In September, a source claimed that Chase and Kelsea split after "arguing a lot".

The insider told Us Weekly: "It was a hard split.

"They had been arguing a lot recently, and their communication wasn't great in the last month. They were both travelling so much and trying to juggle everything, and the arguments piled up."

Meanwhile, Kelsea previously admitted that she feared passing out before her first face-to-face meeting with Chase.

The singer and Chase spent weeks "texting and Facetiming" each other before they met for the first time, and Kelsea recalled feeling anxious ahead of their encounter.

During an appearance on the Call Her Daddy podcast, Kelsea shared: "He came to this party that I was playing, and I had just gotten done playing. And I was ... 'Guys - I'm sweating just thinking about this. I thought I was gonna pass out'.

"You can have chemistry over the phone but when you see each other you're like, what's the height difference, are we ... are you ... I didn't know what to do. And so I walked out to his car, and he got out of his Bronco - hot."