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Brandon Blackstock — a expertise supervisor finest identified for having been each the ex-husband of Kelly Clarkson and the previous stepson of Reba McEntire — has handed away.
He was 48 years previous.
Kelly Clarkson and Brandon Blackstock attend the fifty fifth Annual GRAMMY Awards at STAPLES Middle on February 10, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. (Photograph by Christopher Polk/Getty Photos for NARAS)
The reason for dying was then revealed as follows:
“Brandon bravely battled cancer for more than three years. He passed away peacefully and was surrounded by family. We thank you for your thoughts and prayers and ask everyone to respect the family’s privacy during this very difficult time.”
Clarkson and Blackstock share two youngsters: River Rose, 11, and Remington “Remy” Alexander, 8.
Brandon Blackstock and Kelly Clarkson attend the twenty fifth Annual Critics’ Alternative Awards at Barker Hangar on January 12, 2020. (Photograph Credit score: Frazer Harrison/Getty Photos)
On August 6, Clarkson revealed Blackstock had been sick, suspending her Las Vegas residency through this message:
“While I normally keep my personal life private, this past year, my children’s father has been ill and at this moment, I need to be fully present for them. I am sincerely sorry to everyone who bought tickets to the shows and I so appreciate your grace, kindness and understanding.”
Blackstock additionally had two youngsters from a earlier marriage, Savannah and Seth.
He turned a grandfather in 2022 when his eldest youngster Savannah gave beginning to a son, Lake.
Kelly Clarkson and Brandon Blackstock arrive on the presidential inauguration on the West Entrance of the U.S. Capitol January 21, 2013. (Photograph Credit score: Win McNamee/Getty Photos)
Clarkson and Blackstock bought married in October 2013.
In March 2024, two years after this divorce was finalized, Clarkson filed a lawsuit towards her ex-husband and former supervisor.
She claimed on this authorized movement that Brandon and his father Narvel Blackstock’s administration agency, Starstruck Leisure, violated labor legal guidelines because the starting of their relationship with Clarkson, which began in 2007.
Clarkson alleged within the lawsuit that Starstruck “was not licensed as talent agents” and argues that the agency by no means “obtained a talent agency license from the California Labor Commissioner.”
In consequence? She stated on report that Blackstock and his associates should repay her any cash they beforehand earned off of her profession.
In 2022, in the meantime, a choose dominated that Blackstock owed Clarkson $2.6 million, which he had (illegally) earned in commissions by her work on The Voice and different tasks.
Kelly Clarkson, Remington Alexander Blackstock, and Brandon Blackstock attend STX Movies World Premiere of “UglyDolls” on April 27, 2019. (Photograph Credit score: Emma McIntyre/Getty Photos)
Prior to those lawsuits and these allegations, Clarkson spoke glowingly of her then-husband.
“This guy walks by, making everybody laugh,” she instructed Individuals Journal in 2013 of the primary impression he left on her. “I said, ‘I’m gonna end up with him. I know it.’”
The unique American Idol winner additionally wrote the track “Piece by Piece” about Blackstock, from which we took the lyrics beneath:
However piece by piece, he collected me up. Off the bottom, the place you deserted issues / Piece by piece, he stuffed the holes that you just burned in me / Piece by piece, he restored my religion.
Kelly Clarkson performs through the 2024 Rockefeller Middle Tree Lighting Ceremony on December 4, 2024 in New York Metropolis. (Photograph by Michael Loccisano/Getty Photos)
A supply confirmed to Web page Six this week that Blackstock had lately been in hospice.
Regardless of the most important variations outlined above, Clarkson helped look after Blackstock amid his well being struggles, taking day off of her speak present in February and March.
“I think the thing about divorce — especially having it publicized, and people thinking they know the whole thing — the hardest part of that is, like, it wasn’t an overnight decision,” Clarkson stated of the marital cut up in 2023.
“I wanted to make it beautiful. I wanted to make it awesome. I wanted to make it everything it possibly could be, and sometimes that just doesn’t happen.”
