Kelly Clarkson Reveals Her Kids Are ‘Really Sad’ About Her Divorce From Brandon Blackstock

Kelly Clarkson, 40, has opened up astir how her kids handled the tough divorce she went done with their father, Brandon Blackstock. “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 revealed during the March 13 occurrence of 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.”

Kelly, who was joined to her erstwhile manager, 45, betwixt 2013 and 2021, went connected to accidental she tin empathize with her kids due to the fact that she, too, is simply a kid of divorce. “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,’” she explained. “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.”

From near to right, Seth Blackstock, Remington Alexander Blackstock, Savannah Blackstock, Kelly Clarkson, River Rose Blackstock, and Brandon Blackstock airs astatine the ‘UglyDolls’ movie premiere successful 2019(Photo: Elizabeth Goodenough/Everett Collection)

Kelly has an 8-year-old daughter, River, and a 6-year-old son, Remi, 6, with Brandon. She antecedently admitted navigating her caller mean with kids has been rather difficult during a June 2022 quality connected The Chart Show with Brooke Reese. “It’s been the hardest happening to navigate. I’ve ne'er had this hard of a project,” she said astir penning caller euphony post-divorce. “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.”

Like her kids, Kelly felt atrocious astir her divorcement aft she filed successful June 2020. “Kelly is dealing with each the emotions 1 tin woody with concerning her divorce,” a idiosyncratic adjacent to the Grammy winner EXCLUSIVELY told HollywoodLife successful Aug. 2021. “She has been sad, angry, shocked and each emotion 1 tin feel, she has felt it.”

Kelly Clarkson filed for divorcement from Brandon Blackstock aft 7 years of matrimony (Photo: Matt Baron/Shutterstock)

As fans whitethorn recall, the divorcement wasn’t wholly amicable. In 2021, Kelly was ordered to wage her ex $200,000 a period in spousal support by a Los Angeles County judge. She was besides required to wage $1.25 cardinal toward Brandon’s lawyer fees. “She thinks it is brainsick that she has to walk truthful overmuch wealth successful support. Her enactment is keeping her engaged and distant from it for a play of clip successful the time but it’s ever successful the backmost of her caput and it is intelligibly upsetting,” the insider added. Furthermore, an insider told Us Weekly in Aug. 2021 that Brandon was jealous of Kelly’s occurrence and wasn’t acrophobic to fto that beryllium known.

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