{"id":1949648,"date":"2025-08-08T16:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T16:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1949648"},"modified":"2025-08-08T16:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T16:07:13","slug":"kelly-clarkson-wanted-her-kids-to-have-best-relationship-possible-with-late-ex-after-messy-divorce-star-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kelly-clarkson-wanted-her-kids-to-have-best-relationship-possible-with-late-ex-after-messy-divorce-star-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelly Clarkson Wanted Her Kids to Have \u2018Best Relationship Possible\u2019 With Late Ex After \u2018Messy\u2019 Divorce \u2013 Star Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kelly Clarkson<\/strong> worked hard to foster a relationship between her children and their father after their tumultuous split.<\/p>\n

The \u201cStronger\u201d singer, 43, who shares kids River<\/strong>, 11, and Remingto<\/strong>n, 9, with her late ex-husband,<\/a> Brandon Blackstock<\/strong>, \u201calways wanted her kids to have the best relationship possible\u201d with him, a source told People<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

While their 2022 divorce was \u201cmessy,\u201d \u201cpainful\u201d and overall \u201cincredibly difficult\u201d for her, the source said that she \u201cnever spoke poorly\u201d about her ex to their children.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen she found out that he was sick, she remained protective of him for their sake,\u201d continued the source. \u201cKelly has always tried to keep things classy. It became clear earlier this year that Brandon was not doing well. She\u2019s been devastated for the kids.\u201d<\/p>\n

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As Star<\/em> previously reported, the talent manager passed away on Thursday, August 7, after a three-year battle with melanoma<\/a>. He was 48.<\/p>\n

Prior to his passing, Clarkson postponed<\/a> the remainder of her August shows for her Las Vegas residency.<\/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 shared via Instagram on August 6. \u201cI am sincerely sorry to everyone who bought tickets to the shows and I so appreciate your grace, kindness and understanding.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source starmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Xavier Collin\/Image Press Agency \/ MEGA Kelly Clarkson worked hard to foster a relationship between her children and their father after their tumultuous split. The \u201cStronger\u201d singer, 43, who shares kids River, 11, and Remington, 9, with her late ex-husband, Brandon Blackstock, \u201calways wanted her kids to have the best relationship possible\u201d with him, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1949649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1949648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Kelly-Clarkson-Wanted-Her-Kids-to-Have-\u2018Best-Relationship-Possible.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1949648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1949649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1949648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1949648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1949648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}