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KELLY CLARKSON’S LOSS: How Do You Mourn the Death of an Ex?

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iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

3.3697 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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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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It is Friday, August 8th. And we are just getting word today that Brandon Blackstock, the 48-year-old ex-husband of singer Kelly Clarkson, has passed away after a private three-year battle with cancer. And with that, we welcome you to this episode of Amy and TJj i sit here alongside my partner amy roebuck now

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and robes i think the first part of this story and the reason we are jumping on here to have a

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conversation not just entirely covering the story but there is a um a very personal very intimate

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uh and sometimes maybe even uncomfortable thing that a lot of couples do deal with and the grief and the mourning of someone you are no longer in a relationship with.

1:52.8

And these two certainly were contentious publicly with their divorce.

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