Clearly, there’s no love lost between Kelly Clarkson and her ex-husband, Brandon Blackstock. Kelly threw some shade Brandon’s way while she was promoting her new album, When Christmas Comes Around… Again.
In an “official album visualizer” posted on Kelly’s official YouTube account, the “Since You’ve Been Gone” artist, 42, shared a video of four stockings hung above a lit fireplace. At the top of the stockings, the names “Mom,” “River” and “Remy” were written across the first three. The last stocking simply read, “Nope.”
Kelly shares daughter River Rose and son Remington Alexander with Brandon, 48, so the “nope” was an obvious dig at her ex. The two were married for almost seven years before Kelly officially filed for divorce in June 2020. Even though the American Idol alum was the one to end their marriage, a source told Life & Style that she was having trouble adjusting to single life post-divorce.
“She’s finding her divorce more difficult to deal with than she anticipated,” the insider said in July 2020. “Kelly thought that moving forward with the divorce the right thing to do at the time, but now that Brandon has filed documents responding to her petition, she’s having some regrets.”
The source added that Kelly was “trying to keep herself busy with work and writing music,” but it wasn’t “enough to take her mind off things. It doesn’t help that the divorce is happening during a pandemic — it’s preventing her from seeing her friends in person and going out. She feels so alone and relies on social media comments from fans to cheer her up.”
Things between Kelly and Brandon eventually turned contentious. The former couple was declared legally single in August 2021, but the divorce wasn’t finalized until March 2022. Kelly was ordered to pay Brandon a one-time payment of $1.3 million, along with $200,000 a month in spousal and child support until January 2024.
In November 2023, Brandon was ordered to pay the “Stronger” artist $2.6 million after she claimed that he had overcharged her for booking fees. This included bookings for her roles as a coach for The Voice, host of the Billboard Music Awards, along with her deals with Wayfair and Norwegian Cruise Lines.
Kelly claimed that Brandon had earned almost $2 million in commission from her coaching gig on The Voice and he received $93.30 for landing her the gig as the host for the Billboard Music Awards.
She sued him for the second time in March when she accused him and his father, Narvel Blackstock, of acting as unlicensed agents while booking deals for their clients, including Kelly, at Starstruck Entertainment.
In the lawsuit, Kelly requested that “any and all commissions, fees, profits, advances, producing fees or other monies” she paid to Starstruck Entertainment since 2007 be returned to her, according to a report from Billboard.
“Based on the wrongful acts and conduct of Starstruck, all agreements between the parties, should be declared void and unenforceable, no monies should be paid by cross-complainants to Starstruck, and all monies previously paid by cross-complainants to Starstruck should be disgorged from Starstruck, forthwith,” the court documents obtained by Rolling Stone read.
Both parties reached a settlement in the case two months later, but the specific details were never revealed.
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