KELLY CLARKSON’S LOSS: How Do You Mourn the Death of an Ex?
Amy & T.J.
iHeartPodcasts
4.4 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Kelly Clarkson has taken a step back from her public career to help her children through the sudden loss of their father, her ex-husband, Brandon Blackstock. Clarkson and Blackstock had a contentious, public divorce just a few years ago, Clarkson even writing lyrics addressing her anger and broken heart, but as Amy and T.J. discuss, she is now having to mourn a different type of grief while stepping up as a mom.
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| 0:36.9 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:37.8 | It is Friday, August 8th, and we are just getting word today that Brandon Blackstock, |
| 0:44.0 | the 48-year-old ex-husband of singer Kelly Clarkson, has passed away after a private |
| 0:50.2 | three-year battle with cancer. |
| 0:52.3 | And with that, we welcome you to this episode of Amy and |
| 0:55.8 | TJ. I sit here alongside my partner, Amy Robach now. And Robs, I think the first part of this |
| 1:05.1 | story and the reason we are jumping on here to have a conversation, not just entirely covering |
| 1:08.7 | the story, but there is a very personal, very intimate |
| 1:13.6 | and sometimes maybe even uncomfortable thing that a lot of couples do deal with and the grief |
| 1:18.7 | and the mourning of someone you are no longer in a relationship with. And these two certainly were |
| 1:23.4 | contentious publicly with their divorce. Not going to get into necessarily of that and what this is about, but it made us stop and think, wow, what she may be feeling and going through as a person, even though she's having to do a lot of this publicly. |
| 1:38.5 | Right. |
| 1:38.8 | I mean, this is complicated and it's tragic. |
| 1:42.3 | Of course, Brandon and Kelly were married for seven years |
| 1:46.3 | and he is the father to her two children who are 11 and 9 I believe and she has it seems |
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