Grammy Award-winning recording artist Kelly Clarkson discussed the dissolution of her almost seven-year marriage, alluding that it would have ended sooner if not for her “ego.”
The talk show host discussed what happened during an episode of Glennon Doyle’s “We Can Do Hard Things” podcast.
Clarkson said she didn’t initially want to end things with Brandon Blackstock because she believed she could fix their broken relationship herself.
“I’m like, ‘I can do this. I can handle so much.’ My ego is like, ‘I can control my actions. I can control my reactions. I can do this and I can reach this person and I can get through,'” the “Stronger” singer told Doyle. “It becomes a little bit of your ego that gets in the way.”
The “American Idol” winner filed for divorce from Blackstock in June 2020. The former couple shares joint custody of their children, daughter River Rose, 9, and son Remy, 7.
Clarkson, whose parents are divorced, said neither she nor Blackstone wanted their children to grow up with divorced parents.
“We don’t want to do what we saw done,” she said. “I’m like, ‘I don’t want my kids to be those kids at school.’”
“When you come down to it, like daddy-daughter dances and you don’t have anyone show up,” Clarkson said. “You have to think of all those things.”
The “Because of You” composer relayed a quote from her therapist, saying, “It’s OK for (your kids) to see you struggling. That’s life.”
Clarkson also talked about how her relationship with Blackstock was her only serious romance.
“I literally was like basically single until like 30 … I just mean like, real relationships, it’s really only him,” she told Doyle. “I’m pretty good at rocking life like a loner.”
Now she’s enjoying being single again, using the term “freeing” to describe her post-divorce perception of life.
“Sometimes it’s nice just to be alone and just in your own world and experiencing your own bliss,” she said.
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Clarkson had previously made similar statements about how her decision to divorce took a lot of time.
“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,” the singer said during a March podcast appearance.
“Anyone that’s been divorced [knows]. That was years in trying to make — not make it work, cause I never wanted to be part of something to make it work. 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.”