Kelly Clarkson’s Quotes About Her Relationship With Brandon Blackstock Before Their Split: Sex, Marriage and More

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Kelly Clarkson's Quotes About Her Relationship With Brandon Blackstock Before Their Split: Sex, Marriage and More

Never one to shy away from an honest conversation. Kelly Clarkson opened up about her relationship with husband Brandon Blackstock on multiple occasions before she filed for divorce in June 2020. Us Weekly broke the news that the singer began dating the manager in 2011. Clarkson announced their engagement in December 2012. “I’m engaged!” she tweeted at the time. “I wanted y’all to know! Happiest night of my life last night! I am so lucky and am with the greatest man ever.” The couple wed in Tennessee in October 2013, at which point she became a stepmom to his two kids — daughter Savannah and son Seth — whom he shares with ex-wife Melissa Ashworth. “We have to fit our romantic life into our schedule,” Clarkson told Us exclusively days before the nuptials. “It’ll be both a wedding and an elopement. I like it! We are just doing a small, little wedding — me and Brandon and the kids. That is it. All we have time for! But we’re happy with that. … We just wanted to make it about us.” The twosome later welcomed daughter River in June 2014 and son Remington in April 2016. [jwplayer 0DeP5gl2] While Clarkson did not hold back on speaking out about her marriage through the years, Blackstock rarely divulged his feelings on their dynamic and mostly stayed out of the public eye. However, in April 2020, months before she filed for divorce, he and their kids made a video to celebrate the Voice coach’s birthday. “Happy birthday, baby,” he said in the clip, which was shared by The Kelly Clarkson Show. “I love you more than you’ll ever know.” Us confirmed in June 2020 that Clarkson and Blackstock split after nearly seven years of marriage. She filed for divorce in Los Angeles on June 4. The separation came amid the coronavirus pandemic, during which the pair and their family quarantined at a ranch in Montana. Clarkson perhaps hinted at strife in May 2020 while revealing how she celebrated her birthday. “I literally looked at my husband, ‘cause it was a rough week of work and nonstop everything, and I said, ‘I don’t want to cook one damn meal. I don’t want to clean one article of clothing. I don’t want to do anything.’ I possibly — if my children were to come in and hug me, that’s fine and then they leave,” she explained on Late Night With Seth Meyers. “So, on my birthday, I literally asked to be left alone. … So I was alone and I enjoyed it.” Scroll down to revisit Clarkson’s quotes about her relationship with Blackstock.

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Kelly Clarkson's Quotes About Her Relationship With Brandon Blackstock Before Their Split: Sex, Marriage and More

Never one to shy away from an honest conversation. Kelly Clarkson opened up about her relationship with husband Brandon Blackstock on multiple occasions before she filed for divorce in June 2020. Us Weekly broke the news that the singer began dating the manager in 2011. Clarkson announced their engagement in December 2012. “I’m engaged!” she tweeted at the time. “I wanted y’all to know! Happiest night of my life last night! I am so lucky and am with the greatest man ever.” The couple wed in Tennessee in October 2013, at which point she became a stepmom to his two kids — daughter Savannah and son Seth — whom he shares with ex-wife Melissa Ashworth. “We have to fit our romantic life into our schedule,” Clarkson told Us exclusively days before the nuptials. “It’ll be both a wedding and an elopement. I like it! We are just doing a small, little wedding — me and Brandon and the kids. That is it. All we have time for! But we’re happy with that. … We just wanted to make it about us.” The twosome later welcomed daughter River in June 2014 and son Remington in April 2016. [jwplayer 0DeP5gl2] While Clarkson did not hold back on speaking out about her marriage through the years, Blackstock rarely divulged his feelings on their dynamic and mostly stayed out of the public eye. However, in April 2020, months before she filed for divorce, he and their kids made a video to celebrate the Voice coach’s birthday. “Happy birthday, baby,” he said in the clip, which was shared by The Kelly Clarkson Show. “I love you more than you’ll ever know.” Us confirmed in June 2020 that Clarkson and Blackstock split after nearly seven years of marriage. She filed for divorce in Los Angeles on June 4. The separation came amid the coronavirus pandemic, during which the pair and their family quarantined at a ranch in Montana. Clarkson perhaps hinted at strife in May 2020 while revealing how she celebrated her birthday. “I literally looked at my husband, ‘cause it was a rough week of work and nonstop everything, and I said, ‘I don’t want to cook one damn meal. I don’t want to clean one article of clothing. I don’t want to do anything.’ I possibly — if my children were to come in and hug me, that’s fine and then they leave,” she explained on Late Night With Seth Meyers. “So, on my birthday, I literally asked to be left alone. … So I was alone and I enjoyed it.” Scroll down to revisit Clarkson’s quotes about her relationship with Blackstock.

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Giddy

The American Idol alum gushed about her new romance in May 2012. “I’m too happy! He’s ruining my creativity!” she joked to Us. “I’m writing all this happy s—t! It’s killing me.”

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Marriage Material

Clarkson already had her eye on making things official with Blackstock in October 2012. “We were just in a room together, and then he came up and said he was from the same hometown as me and I was like, ‘Oh, we’re so getting married’ — I was so that girl,” she recalled on the KIIS-FM morning radio show. “When he became single, I was on the prowl.” She added at the time that the duo would “definitely break [the] trend” of broken marriages in her family.

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Music to Her Ears

“I completely fell in love,” she told the AP in November 2012. “Welcome to Cheeseville! I did. I don’t know. Your priorities kind of shift and you become happier and all that stuff. It’s probably my best accomplishment because I think, for me especially, I just think I didn’t think it would happen. It’s like one of those cheesy love songs that didn’t exist, but it does, so that’s cool.”

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The One

Clarkson could not stop raving about Blackstock before they tied the knot. “Six years I was single before this. I’ve never been truly loved like I am right now,” she said in the February 2013 issue of Cosmopolitan. “Brandon’s totally The One. I’ve never been so happy.”

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Rumor Mill

The Grammy winner shut down speculation about her marriage in December 2013. “Keep hearing random rumors of me & Brandon splitting or that’s [sic] he’s cheating on me,” she tweeted. “Stop with all the lying please #aintnobodygottimeforthat.”

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One-on-One

Clarkson got real about the couple’s sex life in her May 2015 Redbook cover story. “I always swore ours would not be a relationship where we have to schedule sex. That is never going to happen,” she revealed. “We put each other first.” Elsewhere in the interview, she denied that Blackstock was her “other half” because she “never believed in someone taking care of” her.

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Her Decision

The songstress admitted in October 2016 that she made the TV producer get a vasectomy. “I was literally pregnant with Remy, and I was like, ‘You are getting fixed. This will never happen to me again,’” she recounted on The Jenny McCarthy Show.

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Lessons Learned

Clarkson stood by her choice to focus on her career before settling down. “I think the biggest thing is just getting married later in life. … You change so much in your twenties,” she told reporters in October 2016. “I mean, [my husband] got married at 21 in his first marriage, and they both went, ‘What?!’ It can be very hard to grow in the same way. Your twenties are all about growth and giant [mistakes].”

She also noted that she could “hold [her life] down” on her own: “I learned that from my mother. She depended a lot, financially, on a man. I don’t depend on him, and he doesn’t depend on me. We made our own way in our own right, and I think that’s what really helps too.”

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Quality Time

Clarkson confessed during her November 2017 “Carpool Karaoke” appearance that balancing her relationship with the rest of her life was not easy. “I think it’s difficult because obviously, I work a lot and I’m a mom, but we try,” she explained. “Did my husband talk to you? Is this an intervention?”

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Sex Confession

“I was single for many years. So, I have children [now], and how one makes children is generally what I do before bed,” she revealed on The Kelly Clarkson Show in December 2019. “That’s not a lie, that’s real! And it’s not weird, it’s natural.”

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Kid Quandary

Clarkson hinted at a significant disagreement in May 2020, sharing on The Kelly Clarkson Show: “I so want another child, and my husband is like, ‘No! We have four!’”