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Kelly Clarkson said her kids are still “adamant about keeping the dream alive” of her getting back together with ex-husband Brandon Blackstock, even after three years apart.
“Anytime it’s mentioned that he might be with someone else, they’re just really adamant about keeping that dream alive that we can still be together — and we’re never anywhere near each other,” the “Stronger” shared. singer to Glennon Doyle on her podcast, “We Can Do Hard Things,” Wednesday.
Clarkson said it’s hard whether you decide to stay in a difficult relationship.
But while she felt ending her relationship with her children’s father was difficult, she revealed: “I’m a better mom, like after (the divorce). I’m a much better mom because I think if you’re honest to yourself , you are able to be honest with others, but sometimes you don’t know that you are lying to yourself.
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Kelly Clarkson said her kids still want her and ex-husband Brandon Blackstock to get back together. (Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)
“Love is tricky. It really convinces you that you’re doing the right thing. It’s just really hard when you love someone so much to have the right answer.”
Clarkson and producer Brandon Blackstock married in 2013 and she filed for divorce in 2020. They share two children: River Rose, 8, and Remy, 7.
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The 41-year-old said she doesn’t always know how to talk to her kids about her divorce from Blackstock because they have their own “separate relationship” with their father.
“I’m like, ‘I can’t tell you that whole story,'” she added.
Kelly Clarkson and Brandon Blackstock share two children: River Rose, 8, and Remy, 7. (Rob Latour/Variety/Penske Media via Getty Images)
River Rose, 8, is “really smart” and “curious” and “catches everything,” Clarkson told Doyle, adding: “I can’t leave a trace of sarcasm on the floor. I can’t do anything. I have to be like this on top of that.”
Doyle revealed that when her daughter was young, she realized she had stayed with her ex with the intention of “having a good motherhood when it’s really bad modeling” because she wouldn’t want her relationship for her daughter.
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Clarkson said she remembered seeing red flags in her own mother’s relationships as a child.
“Even seeing my mom in two different marriages, there are things you pick up on even as a kid that make you think, ‘This is unhealthy,’ right?” she said.
Kelly Clarkson said she is a “better mother” since her divorce. (Chris Polk/E! Entertainment/NBC via Getty Images)
She added that she was on the “fence” in her marriage to Blackstock for a long time.
“The jerk of, like, loving someone so deeply and the jerk of, like, really having to love yourself that much or more, and it was like, ‘I just don’t know if I can do it’ this while still trying to do it this no more,” she said.
Despite her divorce, Clarkson revealed that she still believes people can change and she doesn’t like to give up on people. She said this was instilled in her by her faith when she was young, after a pastor had become like a father figure to her when she had none.
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“So, for a person who hasn’t experienced that kind of love, to show that, and you change, so that’s why I believe in it,” she explained of her optimism.
“It’s nice to see potential in people, and it’s also nice not to give up.”
