Kelly Clarkson Belts Out Emotional Christmas Song She Wrote After Her Divorce: Watch

Kelly Clarkson got into the vacation tone with her Kellyoke show connected the Dec. 13 occurrence of The Kelly Clarkson Show. However, it wasn’t each festive and cheerful, arsenic she sang her heartbreaking ballad, “Merry Christmas (To The One I Used To Know).” The opus was featured connected Kelly’s 2021 Christmas album, When Christmas Comes Around, and she penned it pursuing her achy divorcement from Brandon Blackstock, who she split from successful 2020.

Kelly looked perfectly breathtaking for the performance, wearing a reddish formal and her hairsbreadth pulled backmost into an updo. She sparkled with glittery, purple oculus shadow, and minimal constitution and accessories speech from that. She sang the opus with conscionable a soft playing down her, with her speech amusement acceptable lit up by a Christmas tree.

Kelly Clarkson performing connected her speech show. (Weiss Eubanks/NBCUniversal)

Back successful 2021, Kelly hosted a Christmas special, and she got affectional portion performing “Merry Christmas (To The One I Used To Know).” She opened up astir the inspiration down the bittersweet song, which she said she was “crying [her] look off” portion writing. “There aren’t galore vacation songs for radical feeling mislaid and conscionable plain sad,” Kelly shared. The American Idol victor admitted that she wrote the opus aft putting her 2 children — she shares daughter River and son Remington with Brandon — to furniture 1 night. “I was conscionable going done it, having a truly hard time,” Kelly explained. “It’s been a truly pugnacious twelvemonth for a batch of us.”

Kelly and Brandon with their 2 kids and his children earlier their split. (© OConnor / AFF-USA.com / MEGA)

The opus features perfectly gut-wrenching lyrics, arsenic Kelly sings, “Once a twelvemonth I fto my bosom spell backmost to you and me, a concealed acquisition I springiness myself connected Christmas Eve. If I could consciousness a representation alternatively of crook backmost time, I cognize that the past is each that’s near of you and I.” Kelly has been unfastened with her fans astir however hard her divorcement was connected her, and this opus was an hold of that feeling.

“It’s been the hardest happening to navigate,” Kelly said on The Chart Show With Brooke Reese backmost successful June. “I’ve ne'er had this hard of a project. It’s 1 of those things wherever I’m quality and I’m going done thing huge. Obviously, everyone knows a immense divorcement went done and it’s been 2 years and not casual with kids. It’s a hard happening to navigate.”

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