When she was one of Country music's brightest stars in the mid-90s, Chely Wright was winning awards, had number one hits like Single White Female and was dating fellow singer Brad Paisley.

She now finds herself being quietly rejected by Nashville ever since coming out as a lesbian in 2010.

'As my friend said, 'I don't think (the rejection is) going to be fire and brimstone, I think they're going to freeze her out,'' the singer said this week on CBS This Morning.