Kelly Clarkson reveals how youngsters River and Remington dealt with her divorce from Brandon Blackstock

Kelly Clarkson needed to navigate the fallout from her divorce from Brandon Blackstock, 46, together with her youngsters, River Rose, 9, and Remington Alexander, seven.

Throughout an look on the Podcrushed podcast final week, the Stronger singer, 41, mentioned: ‘While you do undergo a divorce, particularly with younger youngsters, the definition of affection comes up fairly a bit.’

She advised hosts Penn Badgley, Nava Kavelin, and Sophie Ansari that the break up induced her youngsters to say, ‘So you do not love daddy anymore?’

The query shocked her and he or she recalled that she replied: ‘I like that Daddy gave me you two. We simply don’t love one another like we did. It is simply completely different now.’

The Since U Been Gone singer – who admitted needing to rely on anti-depressants to get through her split –  filed for divorce in 2020 after seven years of marriage. The divorce was last in 2022 after years of contentious court docket battles. 

Devoted mother: Kelly Clarkson needed to navigate the fallout from her divorce from Brandon Blackstock, 46, together with her youngsters, River Rose, 9, and Remington Alexander, seven

The Due to You hitmaker mentioned the toughest half was when ‘you possibly can see it on their face. They query, “Can your love change for me?”‘

The devoted mother of two elaborated, saying: ‘It is exhausting. After which it is exhausting after they go, “Why do not I’ve a grandpa from you?”

“You advised me love is completely different with a mother or father and a toddler than with a husband and a spouse. However it’s not as a result of your dad left you.”

The Breakaway songstress was estranged from her father for years earlier than he died in 2019.

And the divorce wasn’t straightforward on her both. Throughout an look final month on Las Culturistas podcast she admitted she turned to antidepressants to get via that interval of her life.

‘I checked out my therapist, and I simply could not cease sobbing, and I used to be like, “I really needed to cancel among the different day as a result of I could not cease crying. I can’t do that,”‘ she mentioned. 

‘And it was a type of issues the place I actually needed to put my pleasure apart and, like, all my childhood problems with no matter.’

One good factor to come back out of her divorce is her enduring friendship with Reba McEntire, 68.

Mother and father: Throughout an look on the Podcrushed podcast final week, the Stronger singer, 41, mentioned: ‘While you do undergo a divorce, particularly with younger youngsters, the definition of affection comes up fairly a bit’

Happier instances: She advised hosts Penn Badgley , Nava Kavelin, and Sophie Ansari that the break up induced her youngsters to say, ‘So you do not love daddy anymore?’

Light reminder: The query shocked her and he or she recalled that she replied: ‘I like that Daddy gave me you two. We simply don’t love one another like we did. It is simply completely different now’

Reba is Kelly’s former stepmother-in-law, she was married to Kelly’s ex’s father.

Throughout an look on Watch What Happens Live final month, the Chemistry singer advised host Andy Cohen the 2 have been nonetheless thick as thieves.

‘I imply we have been buddies earlier than Brandon, we acquired collectively, so, yeah,’ she mentioned on June 27. 

‘We have been speaking earlier than she signed as much as do The Voice, we have been texting one another about that. We textual content one another on a regular basis.’