Brandon Blackstock, Kelly Clarkson’s ex, dead at 48

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Anonymous wrote:I am confused - why do people dislike him?

He cheated on her all the time and when he stopped being discreet, she filed for divorce. From an blog no longer in service.

Then he tried to take a lot of money from her during the divorce. Tried to get her ranch in Montana. She now has a recording studio there where she made her last single Where Have You Been.

Can someone clarify he didn’t just go after (or get?) money she made during the marriage — it was also her FUTURE career earnings too? She makes a boatload from that TV show, for example — probably more than music.

He was awarded a 1.3 million dollar payment as per the prenup. He was also awarded child support, and alimony until Jan 2024. He wanted the Montana ranch and fought for that but was unsuccessful. He then bought his own small ranch in Montana in 2022 after his cancer diagnosis to be near his extended family. In 2024 he was found guilty of acting as her agent without an agent license and was required to pay back the earnings he made as her agent.

Is it public record if he ever actually paid her back?

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Anonymous wrote:We have no idea how Kelly has handled any of it. She could b being incredibly nasty or nice to his family. Just because she cancelled shows (which performers do all the time), it doesn’t mean she is handling things with grace. I find it interesting how many people have very deeply coded gender norms where they ascribe positive intentions and positive feminine / nurturing characteristics to women when they don’t have information and negative interiors and motivations and negative masculine characteristics to men when they don’t have information.

She is an unproblematic celebrity with a wholesome backstory (she got famous by winning a talent competition, not making a naughty video.) Anonymous strangers on the internet feel sad that a bad thing has happened to a person who for the most part seems good and decent. It's not that complicated or weird.

Her children’s father died. I would expect any decent parent would be supporting their own children through that. I don’t get how she is a saint or dealing with this with grace and love or being ascribed all these wonderful words. She hated the man and made angry name calling songs about him. She wanted her kids and the public to hate him for taking alimony, child support, and a house that he was legally entitled to as many believe those are only for women and men are wrong to ever accept them. She wrote song lyrics saying that. I don’t see any grace at all.

She left her hit talk show and canceled concert dates to take care of him and their kids. She never explained why, probably because Brandon asked her not to talk about it. And the public was pretty irritated at her and directorate she was having a breakdown and/or using drugs. But really she was just trying to help and honor a dying man's wishes

How do you know this? That she was taking care of him and trying to help and honour his wishes? Where did you get that information from?

It's obvious. In fact she kept silent while she took unusual/unexplained breaks from her show and she canceled an existing Las Vegas residency. A lot of people were guessing what was up with her. Not a single person guessed that the father of her children was dying. Had she said that, she'd have gotten a lot of understanding and sympathy.

Oh so you made it up. Thought so. Not disclosing an ex husband you hates medical condition doesn’t mean you helped care for him or honoured his wishes. Maybe they hadn’t even told her about it until the end. We don’t know any facts but making them up means nothing.

Clearly she had no warm feelings for him but I don’t think she hated him, at least not at this point in her life. I suspect he knew the end was near and he wanted to see his kids. Depending on how weak he looked or strength, she felt she need to be there for her kids. They probably didn’t even tell the kids until a few months ago.

She was singing F U about him a year after his diagnosis so I am pretty sure the hate was still there.

Her songs weren’t F U. But he made not have told her until recently, maybe when he/they told the kids. Obviously he didn’t want anyone to know until the near end.

Her song was actually FU. The lyrics she sang were F (full word) you and your dad and the fact that you took half, I took my broken heart and turned that SH into art. FU and your view from the valley I bought you, take your broke azz heart, you can all F off.

He bought a small ranch and I guess she felt it was with her alimony money. She sang this in aug 2023. Many recordings of it on YouTube. There were other versus too.

Wasn’t his dad the same sort of schemer living off wealthy ex wives or some such too?

And Brandon got married to Kelly when she was at her heaviest. And was a serial cheater through their marriage. In other words, he never loved her, he was a conniving gold digging scammer like his old man.

You made most of that up.

What’s the timeline of his first divorce and dating Kelly?

His old man wasn’t in the industry too? Doesn’t have ex wives and/or female talent he got rich off of?

Pretty sure I read those allegations here and on lipstick alley.

You can google it.
Married 2001-2012 to 1st wife.
Met Kelly in 2011 and married her in 2012

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Nepo baby was a ruthless shyster just like his daddy.

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Anonymous wrote:If she considers the step kids her kids despite the divorce, then sure - she’s a grandma.

That’s her decision, though. It isn’t an obligation after a divorce.

Her children are step siblings to the children from his previous marriage, so that is another level of tie, of course.

Feels complicated. Sounds like she has handled things with grace, though.

Half siblings not step. Step = unrelated.

They are unrelated to her - ergo, step children.

I was the original poster. These folks are right - I accidentally typed step when I meant half while referring to the kids’ ties. Kelly is not related by blood, so ex-stepmother is most accurate for his kids from his first marriage. It’s up to her and them how they wish to consider themselves. These types of relationships can be incredibly complicated. Does she consider the ex-stepchild’s baby her grandchild? Someone posted that they think she does. If so, it does actually take a big person to maintain those relationships.

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she changed up the lyrics a bit since this time (not FU as a pp keeps alluding to), but man this song

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Anonymous wrote:If she considers the step kids her kids despite the divorce, then sure - she’s a grandma.

That’s her decision, though. It isn’t an obligation after a divorce.

Her children are step siblings to the children from his previous marriage, so that is another level of tie, of course.

Feels complicated. Sounds like she has handled things with grace, though.

Half siblings not step. Step = unrelated.

They are unrelated to her - ergo, step children.

I was the original poster. These folks are right - I accidentally typed step when I meant half while referring to the kids’ ties. Kelly is not related by blood, so ex-stepmother is most accurate for his kids from his first marriage. It’s up to her and them how they wish to consider themselves. These types of relationships can be incredibly complicated. Does she consider the ex-stepchild’s baby her grandchild? Someone posted that they think she does. If so, it does actually take a big person to maintain those relationships.

Savannah Blackstock is (was?) KC's step-daughter but that makes her definietly the half-sister of KC's minor children and Savannah's kids would be River/Remington's (half?) niece/nephew.

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Anonymous wrote:she changed up the lyrics a bit since this time (not FU as a pp keeps alluding to), but man this song

The song was originally written partly as a tribute to her husband (at the time):

Though “Piece by Piece” feels like a devastating song, Clarkson insists that it’s actually healing, allowing her to recognize the pure love she experienced with her former husband, Brandon Blackstock.

https://americansongwriter.com/story-behind-the-song-piece-by-piece-by-kelly-clarkson/

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Anonymous wrote:If she considers the step kids her kids despite the divorce, then sure - she’s a grandma.

That’s her decision, though. It isn’t an obligation after a divorce.

Her children are step siblings to the children from his previous marriage, so that is another level of tie, of course.

Feels complicated. Sounds like she has handled things with grace, though.

Half siblings not step. Step = unrelated.

They are unrelated to her - ergo, step children.

I was the original poster. These folks are right - I accidentally typed step when I meant half while referring to the kids’ ties. Kelly is not related by blood, so ex-stepmother is most accurate for his kids from his first marriage. It’s up to her and them how they wish to consider themselves. These types of relationships can be incredibly complicated. Does she consider the ex-stepchild’s baby her grandchild? Someone posted that they think she does. If so, it does actually take a big person to maintain those relationships.

Savannah Blackstock is (was?) KC's step-daughter but that makes her definietly the half-sister of KC's minor children and Savannah's kids would be River/Remington's (half?) niece/nephew.

Yes, that is correct. I have no way of knowing how close the half siblings are or if Kelly has a close enough relationship to call herself grandma.

Complicated family dynamics. Hopefully the kids do have decent relationships despite their slime of a now-deceased father.

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Anonymous wrote:she changed up the lyrics a bit since this time (not FU as a pp keeps alluding to), but man this song

That isn’t the FU song. This is it https://youtu.be/ya0uWIVqyoM?si=5Aqt05ZadoQhono_

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Anonymous wrote:she changed up the lyrics a bit since this time (not FU as a pp keeps alluding to), but man this song

That isn’t the FU song. This is it https://youtu.be/ya0uWIVqyoM?si=5Aqt05ZadoQhono_

why are you going on about a song?

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Anonymous wrote:If she considers the step kids her kids despite the divorce, then sure - she’s a grandma.

That’s her decision, though. It isn’t an obligation after a divorce.

Her children are step siblings to the children from his previous marriage, so that is another level of tie, of course.

Feels complicated. Sounds like she has handled things with grace, though.

Half siblings not step. Step = unrelated.

They are unrelated to her - ergo, step children.

I was the original poster. These folks are right - I accidentally typed step when I meant half while referring to the kids’ ties. Kelly is not related by blood, so ex-stepmother is most accurate for his kids from his first marriage. It’s up to her and them how they wish to consider themselves. These types of relationships can be incredibly complicated. Does she consider the ex-stepchild’s baby her grandchild? Someone posted that they think she does. If so, it does actually take a big person to maintain those relationships.

Savannah Blackstock is (was?) KC's step-daughter but that makes her definietly the half-sister of KC's minor children and Savannah's kids would be River/Remington's (half?) niece/nephew.

Yes, that is correct. I have no way of knowing how close the half siblings are or if Kelly has a close enough relationship to call herself grandma.

Complicated family dynamics. Hopefully the kids do have decent relationships despite their slime of a now-deceased father.

Savannah was very close to her dad and posted a lot of pictures of them together. I doubt she is close to a Kelly given Kelly’s hatred of her dad and how badly she spoke of him publicly. They had joint custody but his older kids are adults so how much time they spent together could vary.

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Anonymous wrote:she changed up the lyrics a bit since this time (not FU as a pp keeps alluding to), but man this song

That isn’t the FU song. This is it https://youtu.be/ya0uWIVqyoM?si=5Aqt05ZadoQhono_

why are you going on about a song?

It is Kelly singing and was posted in response to people saying she was kind, showing grace, cared about the kids or him etc. all of which are untrue. This performance was well after his diagnosis and she is singing FU to him and telling him to F off and how dare he get any of her money. Not kind, no grace, opposite of caring about her kids or him. Trashing your ex in public when they have cancer and your young kids are hearing it isn’t a sign of anything good.

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Anonymous wrote:We have no idea how Kelly has handled any of it. She could b being incredibly nasty or nice to his family. Just because she cancelled shows (which performers do all the time), it doesn’t mean she is handling things with grace. I find it interesting how many people have very deeply coded gender norms where they ascribe positive intentions and positive feminine / nurturing characteristics to women when they don’t have information and negative interiors and motivations and negative masculine characteristics to men when they don’t have information.

She is an unproblematic celebrity with a wholesome backstory (she got famous by winning a talent competition, not making a naughty video.) Anonymous strangers on the internet feel sad that a bad thing has happened to a person who for the most part seems good and decent. It's not that complicated or weird.

Her children’s father died. I would expect any decent parent would be supporting their own children through that. I don’t get how she is a saint or dealing with this with grace and love or being ascribed all these wonderful words. She hated the man and made angry name calling songs about him. She wanted her kids and the public to hate him for taking alimony, child support, and a house that he was legally entitled to as many believe those are only for women and men are wrong to ever accept them. She wrote song lyrics saying that. I don’t see any grace at all.

She left her hit talk show and canceled concert dates to take care of him and their kids. She never explained why, probably because Brandon asked her not to talk about it. And the public was pretty irritated at her and directorate she was having a breakdown and/or using drugs. But really she was just trying to help and honor a dying man's wishes

How do you know this? That she was taking care of him and trying to help and honour his wishes? Where did you get that information from?

It's obvious. In fact she kept silent while she took unusual/unexplained breaks from her show and she canceled an existing Las Vegas residency. A lot of people were guessing what was up with her. Not a single person guessed that the father of her children was dying. Had she said that, she'd have gotten a lot of understanding and sympathy.

Oh so you made it up. Thought so. Not disclosing an ex husband you hates medical condition doesn’t mean you helped care for him or honoured his wishes. Maybe they hadn’t even told her about it until the end. We don’t know any facts but making them up means nothing.

Clearly she had no warm feelings for him but I don’t think she hated him, at least not at this point in her life. I suspect he knew the end was near and he wanted to see his kids. Depending on how weak he looked or strength, she felt she need to be there for her kids. They probably didn’t even tell the kids until a few months ago.

She was singing F U about him a year after his diagnosis so I am pretty sure the hate was still there.

Her songs weren’t F U. But he made not have told her until recently, maybe when he/they told the kids. Obviously he didn’t want anyone to know until the near end.

Her song was actually FU. The lyrics she sang were F (full word) you and your dad and the fact that you took half, I took my broken heart and turned that SH into art. FU and your view from the valley I bought you, take your broke azz heart, you can all F off.

He bought a small ranch and I guess she felt it was with her alimony money. She sang this in aug 2023. Many recordings of it on YouTube. There were other versus too.

Wasn’t his dad the same sort of schemer living off wealthy ex wives or some such too?

And Brandon got married to Kelly when she was at her heaviest. And was a serial cheater through their marriage. In other words, he never loved her, he was a conniving gold digging scammer like his old man.

You made most of that up.

What’s the timeline of his first divorce and dating Kelly?

His old man wasn’t in the industry too? Doesn’t have ex wives and/or female talent he got rich off of?

Pretty sure I read those allegations here and on lipstick alley.

You can google it.
Married 2001-2012 to 1st wife.
Met Kelly in 2011 and married her in 2012

Pretty sure the first marriage was de facto over when he started dating KC, even if the divorce was not finalized. Step kids rarely have a good relationship with a step mother who is the 'other woman,' and the bio mom wouldn't have let KC become so close to the kids if KC were the OW, so I think we can safely rule that out.

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Anonymous wrote:We have no idea how Kelly has handled any of it. She could b being incredibly nasty or nice to his family. Just because she cancelled shows (which performers do all the time), it doesn’t mean she is handling things with grace. I find it interesting how many people have very deeply coded gender norms where they ascribe positive intentions and positive feminine / nurturing characteristics to women when they don’t have information and negative interiors and motivations and negative masculine characteristics to men when they don’t have information.

She is an unproblematic celebrity with a wholesome backstory (she got famous by winning a talent competition, not making a naughty video.) Anonymous strangers on the internet feel sad that a bad thing has happened to a person who for the most part seems good and decent. It's not that complicated or weird.

Her children’s father died. I would expect any decent parent would be supporting their own children through that. I don’t get how she is a saint or dealing with this with grace and love or being ascribed all these wonderful words. She hated the man and made angry name calling songs about him. She wanted her kids and the public to hate him for taking alimony, child support, and a house that he was legally entitled to as many believe those are only for women and men are wrong to ever accept them. She wrote song lyrics saying that. I don’t see any grace at all.

She left her hit talk show and canceled concert dates to take care of him and their kids. She never explained why, probably because Brandon asked her not to talk about it. And the public was pretty irritated at her and directorate she was having a breakdown and/or using drugs. But really she was just trying to help and honor a dying man's wishes

How do you know this? That she was taking care of him and trying to help and honour his wishes? Where did you get that information from?

It's obvious. In fact she kept silent while she took unusual/unexplained breaks from her show and she canceled an existing Las Vegas residency. A lot of people were guessing what was up with her. Not a single person guessed that the father of her children was dying. Had she said that, she'd have gotten a lot of understanding and sympathy.

Oh so you made it up. Thought so. Not disclosing an ex husband you hates medical condition doesn’t mean you helped care for him or honoured his wishes. Maybe they hadn’t even told her about it until the end. We don’t know any facts but making them up means nothing.

Clearly she had no warm feelings for him but I don’t think she hated him, at least not at this point in her life. I suspect he knew the end was near and he wanted to see his kids. Depending on how weak he looked or strength, she felt she need to be there for her kids. They probably didn’t even tell the kids until a few months ago.

She was singing F U about him a year after his diagnosis so I am pretty sure the hate was still there.

Her songs weren’t F U. But he made not have told her until recently, maybe when he/they told the kids. Obviously he didn’t want anyone to know until the near end.

Her song was actually FU. The lyrics she sang were F (full word) you and your dad and the fact that you took half, I took my broken heart and turned that SH into art. FU and your view from the valley I bought you, take your broke azz heart, you can all F off.

He bought a small ranch and I guess she felt it was with her alimony money. She sang this in aug 2023. Many recordings of it on YouTube. There were other versus too.

Wasn’t his dad the same sort of schemer living off wealthy ex wives or some such too?

And Brandon got married to Kelly when she was at her heaviest. And was a serial cheater through their marriage. In other words, he never loved her, he was a conniving gold digging scammer like his old man.

You made most of that up.

What’s the timeline of his first divorce and dating Kelly?

His old man wasn’t in the industry too? Doesn’t have ex wives and/or female talent he got rich off of?

Pretty sure I read those allegations here and on lipstick alley.

You can google it.
Married 2001-2012 to 1st wife.
Met Kelly in 2011 and married her in 2012

No… met Kelly much earlier but reconnected in 2012.

https://people.com/music/kelly-clarkson-brandon-blackstock-relationship-timeline/

There are many pics of the blended family together. His ex spoke well of Kelly and even attended her baby shower.

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Anonymous wrote:He acted as her agent throughout their marriage and made money from all the gigs and contracts that he booked for her. After he asked for alimony and child support (which was awarded based on state laws and the prenup), she then reported his agent activities as illegal as he wasn’t licensed as an agent in that state. She has always known he wasn’t licensed but was angry he wanted money / assets from her in the divorce and retaliated.

This is my understanding. Also they bought the ranch together. I never understood why she went after him after they were divorced when she was so rich. She was during him last year when he was terminal at that point most likely. That is some hard stuff to do that. I am sure she feels bad now. I think some people just get so mad during divorce. She did admit at some point that he helped her launch her career to next level including The Voice remember Blake was his mother client. Anyway he is gone and hopefully they all made peace before he passed.