Kelly Clarkson has seemingly gotten ex-husband Brandon Blackstock a gift for Christmas:
Some main shade.
In promotion of her album “When Christmas Comes Round… Once more” on Wednesday, the first-ever American Idol winner posted an “official album visualizer” through YouTube.
This video featured 4 stockings hanging over a hearth.
Two of the stockings depict the names of the artist and Blackstock’s children — daughter River, 10, and son Remington, 8 — whereas one other learn, “Mother.”
Thus far, so good and regular, proper?
The fourth, as you may see beneath, is printed with the phrase “Nope.”
Not very delicate, is it?
For these in want of a refresher, Clarkson and Blackstock have been married for seven years earlier than parting methods in 2020.
When their divorce was finalized in 2022, the singer was granted main custody of their two kids.
Issues received fairly ugly at varied factors, although, as a result of Blackstock additionally served as his then-wife’s supervisor below his dad Narvel Blackstock’s firm, Starstruck Administration Group.
Shortly after the speak present host filed for divorce, Starstruck sued Clarkson for alleged unpaid commissions and an obvious breach of her settlement.
The singer countersued, finally profitable a $2.6 million authorized ruling in opposition to her ex in 2023 after a California labor commissioner dominated that he had overstepped his managerial function when securing 4 of her enterprise offers.
Briefly, in response to Clarkson, her former husband stole from her.
Earlier this yr, Clarkson filed a new case… accusing Blackstock and his father’s agency of violating state labor guidelines. In Might, the exes quietly settled this lawsuit.
Clarkson has gone after Blackstock in equally passive aggressive methods earlier than.
Throughout a efficiency on her self-titled speak present in March 2023, for instance, Clarkson altered the lyrics of Gayle’s “ABCDEFU” to seemingly reference Brandon and his dad.
“Overlook you and your dad and the truth that you bought half / And my damaged coronary heart, flip that shit into artwork,” she sang.
Relatedly, Clarkson has not dated publicly since splitting from the expertise supervisor … and her kids prefer it that manner, she mentioned beforehand.
“They always convey it up: ‘Please, we don’t need you to be with anyone else,’” Clarkson advised KSOT 103.5 listeners in November. “They’re younger, so it’s arduous to image their mother with another person aside from their dad.”
