The number one priority for Kelly Clarkson amid her divorce from Brandon Blackstock was their two kids. “The hardest for me is the kids. That’s the hardest for me. I think, as women especially, we’re trained … to take it all on, and you can deal with it, and you’re fine, but it’s your babies that you worry about,” she stated on “The Kelly Clarkson Show.” She revealed to Extra that she had consulted professional help and added, “We have a lot of help as far as therapists or child psychologists ’cause we want to do it right … Everyone’s sad and it’s okay to be sad.”
Clarkson shared on the “Angie Martinez IRL Podcast” that she tries her best to validate her children’s feelings. “I literally ask my kids every night when we’re snuggling up in the bed, ‘Are you happy? And if you’re not, what could make you happier?'” the singer told host Angie Martinez. Clarkson confessed that River and Remington don’t always answer affirmatively and noted that it was a current theme in the few years after the divorce. As much as it pained her, she never wanted to shut the conversation down and went on to say that her kids would tell her, “You know, I’m just really sad, you know. I wish Mommy and Daddy were in the same house.” The divorce also opened up conversations about love, and Clarkson found herself answering her kids’ heartbreaking questions about why she doesn’t love their dad anymore.
