Kelly Clarkson’s kids have informed her it makes them “actually unhappy” she not lives with their father Brandon Blackstock.
Throughout a Monday look on the Angie Martinez IRL podcast, The Kelly Clarkson Present host opened up about how her children dealt with her and her ex-husband’s divorce.
“I actually ask my children each night time after we’re snuggling, ‘Are you cheerful? And in case you’re not, what might make you happier?'” Kelly stated in her interview. “I need them to be trustworthy, so I do not ever say, ‘Oh God, do not inform me that.’ However plenty of instances it could be like, ‘, I am simply actually unhappy. I want Mommy and Daddy had been in the identical home.’ They’re actually trustworthy about it. And I am elevating that type of particular person.”
Kelly filed for divorce from Brandon in June 2020 after nearly seven years of marriage. They share two kids: eight-year-old River Rose and six-year-old Remington Alexander.
“I simply sit there and I am like, ‘I get it. I am from a divorced household as nicely. I get it. That sucks. However we’ll work it out. And you’re so beloved by each of us,'” the singer continued. “I believe speaking with them and never treating them – not treating them like an grownup, as a result of they don’t seem to be – however not treating them like a toddler. They don’t seem to be small emotions. These are large emotions, and people are large feelings.”
Kelly beforehand admitted in a June 2022 look on The Chart Present with Brooke Reese that she discovered it tough to navigate elevating her kids whereas getting divorced.
“I’ve by no means had this tough of a venture,” she stated on the time. “It is a kind of issues the place I am a human and I am going by way of one thing large. Clearly, all people is aware of an enormous divorce went by way of and it has been like two years and never straightforward with children.”