Kelly Clarkson mentioned she is suspending the remainder of her “Studio Session” concert events in Las Vegas this month as her household faces a troublesome chapter.
Clarkson, a Grammy-winning singer, mentioned Wednesday on Instagram that she was suspending the August exhibits so she may assist her kids as their father, her ex-husband, Brandon Blackstock, has been unwell.
“Whereas I usually hold my private life personal, this previous 12 months, my kids’s father has been in poor health and at this second, I have to be totally current for them,” she wrote.
Clarkson and Blackstock divorced in March 2022, two years after they introduced their separation. The couple share two kids: daughter River Rose, who was born in 2014, and son Remington Alexander, born in 2016. Clarkson lives together with her kids in New York Metropolis, the place she additionally hosts a daytime discuss present, “The Kelly Clarkson Present.”
She appeared to deal with her ex-husband by way of her music numerous instances, each in her 2023 songs “Mine” and “Me” and on her discuss present, when she revised the lyrics to Olivia Rodrigo’s track “abcdefu” throughout considered one of her 2023 performances.
“Overlook you and your dad / And the actual fact you bought half and my damaged coronary heart / Turned that [expletive] into artwork,” she sang, which gave the impression to be a reference to her divorce settlement, wherein she needed to situation a one-time fee of over $1 million to her ex-husband, together with month-to-month spousal assist (till Jan. 31, 2024) and little one assist funds that amounted to over $160,000.
In an interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe in June 2023, Clarkson mentioned the break up, in the long run, was “releasing.”
“It’s extremely unhappy, and it’s a darkish place — fetal place on the ground crying — and there’s a lot loss with that, and I by no means skilled grief like that,” she mentioned.
“We bought to let one another go. This isn’t working. This isn’t going to pan out, and it’s not working for both of us.”
Clarkson made headlines this 12 months for her absences from her discuss present. From late February by way of March, she stepped away often. Throughout that point, visitor hosts together with Simu Liu, Roy Wooden Jr. and even “TODAY’s” Willie Geist crammed in.
