LOCKDOWN GIVES NE-YO MARRIAGE NEW LIFE!

QUARANTINE has fired up Ne-Yo’s love life!

The “Sexy Love” singer,

40, who split from his wife, Crystal Smith, early this year, said that living under lockdown together has helped him “lock back in” with his spouse.

“The whole quarantine thing was kind of a blessing,” he shared. “We were definitely talking divorce, but the quarantine kind of forced us to sit still and block out the noise from the world.”

The rapper opened up about his marital woes in February, when he revealed that he and Crystal, 33, had separated after four years of marriage because their “demons don’t mesh.”

Ne-Yo was spotted soon after partying

it up with models, and even wrote a song, “Pinky Ring,” about the split. But sheltering in place with their two children, he said, allowed them to have “blatantly painfully, brutally honest” conversations that helped them repair their rift. “We’re actually stronger now than we were before,” the crooner crowed. “Now we feel like we can really talk to each other.”

The rapper had announced in February he and wife Crystal were separating

Ne-Yo’s mother, Loraine Smith, Ne-Yo and Crystal with kids Mason, Shaffer, Madilyn and Roman