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Brandon Blackstock — a expertise supervisor finest identified for having been each the ex-husband of Kelly Clarkson and the previous stepson of Reba McEntire — has handed away.
He was 48 years previous.
The very unhappy information was damaged not lengthy after Clarkson canceled numerous dates on her Las Vegas residency to her ex-spouse’s sickness.
“It’s with nice unhappiness that we share the information that Brandon Blackstock has handed away,” a rep for the household stated in a press release on Thursday.
The reason for loss of life was then revealed as follows:
“Brandon bravely battled most cancers for greater than three years. He handed away peacefully and was surrounded by household. We thanks in your ideas and prayers and ask everybody to respect the household’s privateness throughout this very troublesome time.”
Clarkson and Blackstock share two kids: River Rose, 11, and Remington “Remy” Alexander, 8.
On August 6, Clarkson revealed Blackstock had been sick, suspending her Las Vegas residency by way of this message:
“Whereas I usually preserve my private life non-public, this previous yr, my kids’s father has been ailing and at this second, I have to be absolutely current for them. I’m sincerely sorry to everybody who purchased tickets to the reveals and I so respect your grace, kindness and understanding.”
Blackstock additionally had two youngsters from a earlier marriage, Savannah and Seth.
He grew to become a grandfather in 2022 when his eldest youngster Savannah gave start to a son, Lake.
Clarkson and Blackstock obtained married in October 2013.
Following their nuptials, Blackstock took on the position of his spouse’s supervisor… which finally led to a really messy divorce in 2020.
In March 2024, two years after this divorce was finalized, Clarkson filed a lawsuit in opposition to her ex-husband and former supervisor.
She claimed on this authorized movement that Brandon and his father Narvel Blackstock’s administration agency, Starstruck Leisure, violated labor legal guidelines for the reason that starting of their relationship with Clarkson, which began in 2007.
Clarkson alleged within the lawsuit that Starstruck “was not licensed as expertise brokers” and argues that the agency by no means “obtained a expertise company license from the California Labor Commissioner.”
In consequence? She stated on file that Blackstock and his associates must repay her any cash they beforehand earned off of her profession.
In 2022, in the meantime, a decide dominated that Blackstock owed Clarkson $2.6 million, which he had (illegally) earned in commissions by her work on The Voice and different initiatives.
Prior to those lawsuits and these allegations, Clarkson spoke glowingly of her then-husband.
“This man walks by, making everyone chuckle,” she informed Individuals Journal in 2013 of the primary impression he left on her. “I stated, ‘I’m gonna find yourself with him. I do know it.’”
The unique American Idol winner additionally wrote the track “Piece by Piece” about Blackstock, from which we took the lyrics beneath:
However piece by piece, he collected me up. Off the bottom, the place you deserted issues / Piece by piece, he crammed the holes that you just burned in me / Piece by piece, he restored my religion.
A supply confirmed to Web page Six this week that Blackstock had not too long ago been in hospice.
Regardless of the main variations outlined above, Clarkson helped take care of Blackstock amid his well being struggles, taking time without work of her discuss present in February and March.
“I believe the factor about divorce — particularly having it publicized, and folks considering they know the entire thing — the toughest a part of that’s, like, it wasn’t an in a single day resolution,” Clarkson stated of the marital cut up in 2023.
“I wished to make it stunning. I wished to make it superior. I wished to make it every part it probably might be, and generally that simply doesn’t occur.”
