When the Spontaneous Combustion Tour kicked off in March 1996, Faith Hill was engaged to Scott Hendricks, a fellow musician who had produced some of her first singles. Tim McGraw, on the other hand, had recently ended an engagement with Kristine Donahue. Despite this complicated arrangement, which at one point had allegedly included double dates between the two couples, Hill and McGraw grew closer. Ex-fiancé Donahue would later resurface in 2016 when the tabloid site Radar Online reported that Tim had given her a loan to help sustain her small business; McGraw has since denied the claim.