CHANTAL KREVIAZUK IS DOING THE WORK

The singer is in it for the long haul—in her music, her philanthropy and her marriage

- Maureen Halushak

THERE'S A SCENE in I'm Going to Break Your Heart-the 2019 documentary that follows Chantal Kreviazuk and her husband, Raine Maida, as they retreat to a remote French island to work on new music (and their marriage) in which Kreviazuk breaks into song in a patisserie. The lyrics are inspired by a recent session with their marriage coach, during which she relayed her experience of feeling belittled as the youngest kid in her family and how Maida can trigger the same feeling when he's inattentive. She sings the first verse of the song, called "Bring That Boy," and then Maida tells her to stop. "I get it," he says. "I'm getting choked up." In the background, a woman seated behind the couple looks at them with a mildly befuddled expression.

Throughout the documentary, Kreviazuk puts it all on the table the good, the bad, the mundane-in regard to her decades-long marriage to the Our Lady Peace front man, with whom she shares three teenage sons. This is something she continues to do on Instagram, garnering fervent replies. (One example: "This is some freaking amazing truth about marriage.") As a result of these unvarnished yet hopeful dispatches from the midlife marriage trenches, couples have sent Kreviazuk and Maida videos of themselves tearing up their divorce papers, inspired to try again.