Kelly Clarkson Admits Her Kids Are Still Hoping She’ll Reconcile With Ex 3 Years After Split

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It’s been 3 years since Kelly Clarkson and her ex-husband Brandon Blackstock filed for divorce and entered a bitter divorcement conflict — but their kids, Remington “Remy” Alexander, 7, and girl River Rose, 8, are inactive rooting for their parents to beryllium together. “My kids conscionable came backmost from my ex and immoderate clip there’s notation of possibly him being with idiosyncratic other … they are conscionable truly adamant astir keeping that imagination live that we mightiness inactive beryllium unneurotic 1 day,” she revealed connected the Tuesday, June 13 occurrence of writer and activistic Glennon Doyle‘s podcast, We Can Do Hard Things. The three-time Grammy winner, 41, besides explained that she knows however hard it is for her kids to person divorced parents arsenic a kid of divorcement herself, but said that it yet was the champion decision.

“It’s absorbing due to the fact that you deliberation astir your kids, right, and you’re like, ‘Oh man, I wonderment however [divorce] going to impact them?’ I retrieve how it affected me, and [my husband] has besides been done a divorcement with his family, truthful I was like, cipher wants that,” she noted. “You effort and you effort and you effort but then, you fig out, good I don’t privation them increasing up with this unhealthy [relationship]. But I’m going to beryllium honorable with you, I’ve had radical travel to maine that are going done divorcement oregon going done truly hard relationships with kids, it doesn’t substance either mode you go.”

Kelly Clarkson and her ex-husband, Brandon Blackstock, took their kids River Rose and Remington, positive Brandon’s kids, Seth and Savannah, to the satellite premiere of Ugly Dolls’ successful 2019 (Photo: AFF-USA/Shutterstock)

Kelly confirmed that kids volition apt have a “hard time” whether oregon not you get divorced oregon enactment successful a loveless marriage. “It doesn’t substance if you stay, it doesn’t substance if you go, I americium inactive having conversations [with my kids] 3 years later,” she confirmed.

Kelly has been unfastened astir however she and her kids are dealing with the divorce implicit the past twelvemonth oregon so, erstwhile things yet began settling down. In March, she admitted she’s had hard conversations astir divorcement with her kids, who are honorable with her astir however upset they are that she and Brandon are nary longer together. “I virtually inquire my kids each nighttime erstwhile we’re snuggling, ‘Are you happy? And if you’re not, what could marque you happier?’” she candidly confessed connected the Angie Martinez IRL podcast. “I privation them to beryllium honest, truthful I don’t ever say, ‘Oh God, don’t archer maine that.’ But a batch of times it would beryllium like, ‘You know, I’m conscionable truly sad. I privation Mommy and Daddy were successful the aforesaid house.’ And they’re truly honorable astir it. And I’m raising that benignant of individual.”

“I conscionable beryllium determination and I’m like, ‘I get it. I’m from a divorced household arsenic well. I get it. That sucks. But we’re going to enactment it out. And you are truthful loved by some of us,’” Kelly added. “I deliberation communicating with them and not treating them — not treating them similar an adult, due to the fact that they’re not — but not treating them similar a child. They’re not tiny feelings. Those are immense feelings, and those are immense emotions.”

Kelly Clarkson and Brandon Blackstock were joined for 7 years (Photo: Eric Charbonneau/Shutterstock)

Furthermore, the “Since U Been Gone” hitmaker said beingness aft divorcement is the “hardest happening to navigate” during a June 2022 quality on The Chart Show with Brooke Reese. She added, “It’s 1 of those things wherever I’m a quality and I’m going done thing huge. Obviously, everybody knows a immense divorcement went done and it’s been like, 2 years and not casual with kids.”

Kelly and her erstwhile husband-manager finalized their divorce successful March 2022. Although Kelly has superior custody of their kids, she was ordered to wage Brandon $45,600 per period successful kid enactment and $115,000 per period successful spousal support, according to TMZ.

The vocalist and speech amusement host’s upcoming medium is believed to beryllium inspired by her divorce. She released a azygous called “Mine” successful April and seemingly dissed Brandon. “Someone’s gonna amusement you / How a bosom tin beryllium utilized / Like you did mine,” she sang.

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