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As we’ve beforehand reported, Kelly Clarkson’s ex-husband, Brandon Blackstock, handed away final week on the age of 48.
Clarkson’s emotions towards Blackstock had been probably relatively advanced in his ultimate years.
Their divorce was infamously contentious, however additionally they had two youngsters collectively, and she or he credited him with inspiring her to launch her personal speak present.
Now plainly the state of affairs was much more difficult than we realized, as Blackstock was dwelling with Kelly’s former assistant on the time of his dying.
Kelly’s former assistant described as Brandon’s ‘soulmate’
Based on an obituary obtained by TMZ, Brittney Marie Jones was the “loving associate” who resided with Blackstock in Montana within the ultimate years of his life.
“Brandon, alongside together with his stunning and loving associate in life and enterprise, Brittney Marie Jones, began constructing a life, constructing firms, and dealing tirelessly to create Headwaters Livestock Public sale and what’s going to stay on as his legacy, The Valley View Rodeo in Bozeman, Montana,” reads the obit.
The connection was reportedly confirmed by a social media put up from Jones’ father.
“Yesterday we misplaced a superb man, Brandon Blackstock my daughter’s soulmate and I thought-about him my son,” he wrote, in keeping with Web page Six.
The outlet notes that the put up is not obtainable to the general public.
Blackstock has been the topic of a number of transferring tributes within the days since his dying, together with one from his former stepmother, Reba McEntire.
“There isn’t a one else like him, and I’m grateful for the time we had collectively. His legacy and laughter shall be carried on by means of his household,” McEntire wrote on her social media pages, including:
“Relaxation in peace cowboy. Comfortable trails to you til we meet once more.”
“One of the best factor Brandon has left for his youngsters is that they know the place he’s. I’ve heard it mentioned, ‘Nothing is misplaced when the place it’s’ and Brandon is with Jesus his Savior,” Blackstock’s first spouse wrote on her Instagram web page.
“There’s nobody else on this earth that I’d wish to be my dad as a result of nobody might be half the person you had been to me,” Brandon’s eldest son, Seth Blackstock, wrote in his personal put up.
Kelly Clarkson reportedly ‘devastated’ by Brandon Blackstock’s dying
Whereas Clarkson has but to publicly touch upon her ex’s passing, sources near the singer say she’s “devastated” by Blackstock’s dying.
Over the course of the previous yr, there was widespread hypothesis about Clarkson’s frequent absences from her speak present.
It now seems as if she was attending to household issues forward of Brandon’s passing.
Our ideas exit to Kelly and all of Brandon Blackstock’s family members throughout this enormously troublesome time.
