Kelly Clarkson has shared an replace on how her kids are coping 5 months after her ex-husband Brandon Blackstock died at age 48 from most cancers.
The Voice coach, 43, briefly addressed the way in which she is supporting her and Blackstock’s daughter River, 11, and son Remington, 9, throughout a backstage Q&A video for The Kelly Clarkson Present, which was printed on Saturday, January 10. Clarkson defined that her favourite exercise to do every day is to “snuggle” along with her kids.
“My youngsters, they’re 9 and 11. Form of that particular little enjoyable stage the place they will wipe their very own behinds, however they’re nonetheless sufficiently small to, like, love cuddling and love snuggles,” she defined. “There’s been so much for our household lately, and so I’ve allowed my youngsters to sleep with me fairly a bit.”
Clarkson continued, “It’s my two canines, my two youngsters and me. It’s so much. It’s been actually particular, although, as a result of… the conversations you have got throughout that point are fairly cute. In order that’s most likely my favourite time of day.”
Blackstock died in August 2025 following a three-year most cancers battle. The primary signal that Blackstock was unwell got here that very same month when Clarkson postponed her “Studio Session” concert events at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
“Sadly, I must postpone the rest of the August Studio Session dates in Las Vegas,” she mentioned in an announcement on the time. “Whereas I usually hold my private life non-public, this previous 12 months, my kids’s father has been unwell and at this second, I must be totally current for them.”
The American Idol alum concluded, “I’m sincerely sorry to everybody who purchased tickets to the exhibits and I so recognize your grace, kindness and understanding.”
In the future later, Blackstock’s household launched an announcement confirming that he’d died after a prolonged battle with most cancers.
“It’s with nice unhappiness that we share the information that Brandon Blackstock has handed away. Brandon bravely battled most cancers for greater than three years. He handed away peacefully and was surrounded by household,” a household spokesperson instructed Us Weekly. “We thanks in your ideas and prayers and ask everybody to respect the household’s privateness throughout this very tough time.”
Brandon Blackstock and Kelly Clarkson in January 2020. Frazer Harrison/Getty Photos
Clarkson stepped away from her daytime speak present and filming on The Voice to help her kids, although she ultimately acquired again to work in September 2025.
In the meantime, Us reported in August 2025 about the way in which Blackstock’s sickness led him to construct bridges with Clarkson after their contentious 2022 divorce. A supply instructed Us that Blackstock’s most cancers analysis “modified [his and Clarkson’s] views” even when it didn’t essentially deliver them “nearer collectively.”
“Co-parenting was not straightforward for Kelly as a result of she was the one who needed to transport the children, so it was actually her life that was all the time turned the other way up,” the insider added. “She is their [children’s] major mum or dad. However this was catastrophic for them, so instantly Kelly went into mother mode and centered on the children and the way they have been coping.”
Whereas Clarkson has largely shied away from addressing Blackstock’s demise in public, her former mother-in-law, Reba McEntire, instructed Leisure Tonight on the 2025 Emmy Awards purple carpet that their entire household “miss [Blackstock] each minute.” (McEntire was married to Brandon’s father, Narvel Blackstock, from 1989 to 2015. Brandon and his siblings Chassidy and Shawna have been from Narvel’s first marriage to Elisa Gayle Ritter, whom he was with from 1973 to 1988.)
“The youngsters are doing nicely, they’re all bonding collectively and hanging out with one another, and taking it someday at a time,” McEntire, 70, mentioned in September 2025. “We all know God’s acquired this.”
Reba McEntire and Brandon Blackstock’s dad, Narvel Blackstock, break up a decade in the past, however the nation famous person was nonetheless there for the household within the months main as much as Brandon’s demise. “Reba has spent extra time with the Blackstock crew prior to now 12 months than in years prior,” an insider solely tells Us Weekly, including that […]
Other than his two kids with Clarkson, Blackstock shared daughter Savannah, 23, and son Seth, 18, along with his ex-wife Melissa Ashworth.
In December 2025, McEntire paid tribute to her late stepson on what would have been his forty ninth birthday.
“Glad birthday Brandon! We love and miss you a bunch,” the “Fancy” singer wrote through Instagram, alongside a throwback picture of the pair.
