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"LeAnn Rimes says her decision to have an affair with Eddie Cibrian is complicated - and people shouldn&amp;apos;t rush to judgment.\r\n&amp;quot;What happened is not who I am, period,&amp;quot; she says on In the Spotlight with Robin Roberts: All Access Nashville, airing Wednesday at 10 p.m. (EST) on ABC. &amp;quot;But I do know how much I love him. So I&amp;apos;ve always said I don&amp;apos;t live my life with regret. I can&amp;apos;t.&amp;quot;\r\nPHOTOS: Stars caught cheating\r\n Us Weekly first broke the news that she and Cibrian, 37, had an off-camera fling last year while shooting the Lifetime flick, Northern Lights. At the time, Rimes, now 28, was wed to dancer Deane Sheremet; Cibrian was raising two children with his wife, model Brandi Glanville.\r\n&amp;quot;It happens every day to so many people,&amp;quot; Rimes says of the affair. &amp;quot;And if I take away my album sales, my words ... you have just another couple. You had two couples whose marriages didn&amp;apos;t work who really stumbled upon each other and fell in love. I can&amp;apos;t change [critics&amp;apos;] minds. Nothing I&amp;apos;m going to say is going to change it. I do know that and I have accepted that.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nCibrian also chimes in, opening up for the first time about falling for Rimes.\r\n&amp;quot;The truth is that we&amp;apos;re human beings,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;We make mistakes and we learn from them, but we&amp;apos;re human. We fell in love.\r\n&amp;quot;We&amp;apos;re talking about something that&amp;apos;s over a year, year and-a-half old, really, and we&amp;apos;re still together, and we&amp;apos;re madly in love,&amp;quot; he goes on. &amp;quot;And I think people are finally seeing that, but it doesn&amp;apos;t mean that people will accept it or the tabloids will stop trying to print lies and try to tear us apart or tear us down.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nAdds Rimes, &amp;quot;We&amp;apos;re really happy in what we feel privately. We hope [that] one day, I think people will feel publicly.&amp;quot;\r\nContrary to Internet reports, Rimes doesn&amp;apos;t break down in tears talking about the affair.  She cries when asked about her book, What I Cannot Change, in which she writes that there was once a time when, if she wasn&amp;apos;t doing a show, she didn&amp;apos;t know what do with herself.\r\n&amp;quot;That was my life!&amp;quot; she says, crying.\r\n&amp;quot;I&amp;apos;m learning who I am without it and that&amp;apos;s the coolest thing about my life right now, that I have all of these incredible things happening, and I have family and -- and I&amp;apos;m learning who I am without it.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nThese days, Rimes says music isn&amp;apos;t the burden that it used to be.\r\n&amp;quot;There&amp;apos;s been a lot thrust on my shoulders at a very young age,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;I -- thank God. I don&amp;apos;t know how I could have handled it, but I have and I&amp;apos;m still here. And that&amp;apos;s -- that&amp;apos;s saying a lot, you know?&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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