Some relationships fade, others stay messy. And when you’re raising kids with a former flame? Things can get complicated fast — just ask Kelly Clarkson.
During the Thursday, March 27 episode of Kylie Kelce’s podcast Not Gonna Lie, the 42-year-old “Since U Been Gone” singer opened up about the realities of co-parenting daughter River, 10, and son Remington, 8, with ex-husband, Brandon Blackstock.
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“There’s a lot that I keep in… [because] co-parenting is fun,” Clarkson mused. “It’s like, ‘Oh, he couldn’t come because this,’ and I’m like, ‘Okay, cool.’ Do you think I just leave and just sit in the park all day?”
The American Idol alum — who won the first season of the hit singing competition in 2002 — also called out the parenting double standard she’s noticed.
“Even from a young age… you’re like, ‘He’s allowed to be somewhere, but you’re not.’ That is like, real interesting,” Clarkson told the 33-year-old podcaster, who is currently expecting her fourth child with Jason Kelce. (In addition to the new bundle en route, Kylie and Jason, 37, are parents to daughters Wyatt, 5, Elliotte, 4, and Bennett, 2.)
Still, the From Justin to Kelly star keeps it honest with her kids. “If I, you know, lose my temper on something because I’m just like, over it, because I’ve had to tell you so many times, like you know, I look at them and go, ‘Okay. Mommy’s human. That was a human moment.’”
Kylie agreed, adding, “I always just like to take that moment to acknowledge that I don’t wanna raise my voice… but we got there for a reason.”
Clarkson married Blackstock, 48, in 2013, but filed for divorce in 2020 after nearly seven years of marriage. The split was finalized in 2022, with The Kelly Clarkson Show host later calling it “extraordinarily hard.”
Both of my kiddos backstage getting ready to join me on stage in Vegas
nothing will ever be as cool and amazing as these two little humans that will always have my whole heart. pic.twitter.com/5LO8q6K3lS
— Kelly Clarkson
(@kellyclarkson) August 19, 2023
Reflecting on the process during a 2023 episode of Angie Martinez’s IRL podcast, Clarkson said, “I think the thing about divorce — especially having it publicized, and people thinking they know the whole thing — the hardest part of that is, like, it wasn’t an overnight decision.”
The mom of two continued, “I wanted to make it beautiful. I wanted to make it awesome. I wanted to make it everything it possibly could be, and sometimes that just doesn’t happen.”
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