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Kelly Clarkson shared that she is postponing the remainder of her \u201cStudio Session\u201d concerts in Las Vegas<\/a> for August as her family faces a difficult chapter.<\/p>\n In an Instagram post <\/a>shared Wednesday, Aug. 6, the singer said that she was postponing the August shows so that she could support her children as their father and Clarkson\u2019s ex-husband Brandon Blackstock has been unwell.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile I normally keep my personal life private, this past year, my children\u2019s father has been ill and at this moment, I need to be fully present for them,\u201d she wrote on Instagram.<\/p>\n Clarkson and Blackstock divorced in March 2022,<\/a> two years after announcing their separation. The couple shares two children<\/a>: daughter River Rose, who was born in 2014, and son Remington Alexander, born in 2016. Clarkson lives with her children in New York City, where she also hosts her daytime talk show, \u201cThe Kelly Clarkson Show.\u201d<\/p>\n The singer seemingly addressed her ex-husband through her music a number of times, both on her 2023 songs \u201cMine\u201d and \u201cMe\u201d <\/a>and her talk show when she revised the lyrics<\/a> to Olivia Rodrigo\u2019s song \u201cabcdefu\u201d during one of the host\u2019s 2023 performances.<\/p>\n \u201cForget you and your dad \/ And the fact you got half and my broken heart \/ Turned that (expletive) into art,\u201d she sang at the time, which seemed to be a reference to her divorce settlement<\/a> in which she had to issue a one-time payment of over $1 million to her ex-husband, along with monthly spousal support (until Jan. 31, 2024) and child support payments that amounted to over $160K.<\/p>\n In an interview with Apple Music\u2019s Zane Lowe in June 2023, the Grammy winner said the split, in the end, was \u201cfreeing.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s incredibly sad, and it\u2019s a dark place \u2014 fetal position on the floor crying \u2014 and there\u2019s so much loss with that, and I never experienced grief like that,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe got to let each other go. This is not working. This is not going to pan out, and it\u2019s not working for either of us.\u201d<\/p>\n