For followers of Kelly Clarkson, information that her ex-husband, Brandon Blackstock, has died at 48 certainly sparked concern in regards to the “American Idol” alum and the previous couple’s two kids. Blackstock died of most cancers only a day after Clarkson verified rumors that he was sick in an August 6 Instagram message to her followers. In it, Clarkson mentioned that she could be suspending her Las Vegas residency, noting, “Whereas I usually maintain my private life non-public, this previous yr, my kids’s father has been sick and at this second, I must be absolutely current for them.” It is clear that regardless of having finalized her messy divorce with Blackstock simply three years in the past, Clarkson was serving to their kids to navigate this tough time. Whereas Clarkson was clearly within the image main as much as Blackstock’s demise, one remark she made some years in the past alluded to the likelihood that her ex was seeing somebody new.

It is clear that Clarkson and Blackstock did not have a straightforward divorce, however that did not cease their youngsters, River and Remington, from holding out hope that they might get again collectively. Whereas on the “We Can Do Exhausting Issues” podcast in 2023, Clarkson defined, “My youngsters simply got here again from my ex and any time there’s point out of perhaps him being with any person else…they’re simply actually adamant about conserving that dream alive that we’d nonetheless be collectively someday.” 

It did not appear as if Kelly Clarkson meant to disclose something about her ex-husband’s courting life on the podcast, however her remark did suggest that Brandon Blackstock had began seeing somebody new. In the end, Kelly mentioned that regardless of the way you deal with your divorce, “Your youngsters will nonetheless have a tough time… I’m nonetheless having conversations [with my kids] three years later.”

In the end, it is not clear if Blackstock was in a relationship on the time of his demise. It does appear, nonetheless, that Clarkson hasn’t gotten again on the market but. At one present throughout her Studio Periods residency on the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas final month, Clarkson instructed the viewers, “Courting may be very tough, which is why I do not,” per Folks. 

This got here months after Clarkson appeared on KOST 1035 and defined that her youngsters have been nonetheless immune to the thought of their mother and father shifting on with new companions. “They consistently carry it up, ‘Please, we do not need you to be with anyone else,'” she defined, including, “They’re younger. It is onerous to image their mother with another person aside from their dad.” Nonetheless, she mentioned, “I’ve expressed like, ‘Hey, I really like you guys however Mommy wants lovings too.'” So, whereas she is probably not courting in the meanwhile, it could possibly be within the playing cards sooner or later.