More details about the death of Kelly Clarkson<\/strong>\u2018s ex-husband, Brandon Blackstock<\/strong>, have been revealed.<\/p>\n In an article published Monday, August 11, the Silver Bow County Coroner, Dan Hollis<\/strong>, told People<\/a><\/em> that the talent manager \u201cpassed away peacefully at his home in Butte, Montana on August 7th under hospice care.\u201d<\/p>\n As for Blackstock\u2019s cause of death, Hollis confirmed he died of \u201cnatural causes\u201d from his lengthy battle with melanoma.<\/p>\n Hollis also noted that Blackstock \u2014 who died at 48 years old<\/a> \u2014 was \u201csurrounded by his family\u201d at the time of his passing.<\/p>\n However, Hollis did not specify whether Clarkson, 43, or her two children \u2014 River Rose<\/strong>, 11, and Remington Alexander<\/strong>, 9, whom she shares with Blackstock \u2014 were present.<\/p>\n On Wednesday, August 6, the singer-songwriter took to Instagram to alert fans that she would have to postpone the rest of the shows<\/a> in her Las Vegas residency<\/a> to tend to her kids.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile I normally keep my personal life private, this past year, my children\u2019s father has been ill,\u201d the American Idol<\/em> champion wrote on the platform. \u201cAt this moment, I need to be fully present for them.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI am sincerely sorry to everyone who bought tickets to the shows and I so appreciate your grace, kindness and understanding,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n The \u201cSince U Been Gone\u201d hitmaker and Blackstock wed in 2013, separated in 2020, and finalized their divorce in 2022.<\/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":" Faye Sadou\/AdMedia Newscom\/Mega Agency More details about the death of Kelly Clarkson\u2018s ex-husband, Brandon Blackstock, have been revealed. In an article published Monday, August 11, the Silver Bow County Coroner, Dan Hollis, told People that the talent manager \u201cpassed away peacefully at his home in Butte, Montana on August 7th under hospice care.\u201d As for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1954484,"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-1954483","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-Clarksons-Ex-Husband-Brandon-Blackstock-Was-in-Hospice-Care-Before.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954483","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=1954483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1954484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1954483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1954483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1954483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/staging.starmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Featured-1-Kelly-Clarkson-5.jpeg\")