By Breaking Celebrity News Staff

Tabloid favorite LeAnn Rimes faced off with pop culture assassin Chelsea Handler on Chelsea Lately Thursday night, and the interview was about what we expected ... tense, awkward and uncomfortable!

Chelsea wasted little time establishing the tone, telling Rimes, "Welcome to my show: I know that you've seen me talking sh*t about you on the show."

Rimes responded, "Absolutely. I have, which is more why I wanted to come on," adding her recollections of Chelsea's nightly jokes about her divorce with dancer Dean Sheremet.

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"I watched your show religiously I was bawling my eyes out and I was watching ... and I was watching your show thinking I could get a laugh out of it, instead I was laughing at you laughing at me," Rimes said, adding it was the "first time she could laugh and cry at the same time.

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"Those are great memories for me," Rimes said.

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"Well, your divorce was great memories for me too," Chelsea said.

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