Clarkson said the divorce has forced their kids to ask her, “So you don’t love daddy anymore?”
“I love that Daddy gave me you two,” she recalled telling them in response. “We just don’t like each other like we did. It’s just different now.” The “Since U Been Gone” hitmaker said the hardest part is when “you can see it on their face. They question, ‘Can your love change for me?'” The “Kelly Clarkson Show” host, 41, filed for divorce from Blackstock in June 2020 after seven years of marriage. “It’s hard. and then it’s hard when they go, ‘Why don’t I have a grandpa from you? You told me love is different with a parent and a child than with a husband and a wife. But it’s not because your dad left you,'” she explained, referring to her relationship with her estranged dad Stephen, who died in 2019.
“I looked at my therapist, and I just couldn’t stop sobbing, and I was like, ‘I actually had to cancel some of the other day because I couldn’t stop crying. I cannot do this,’” the singer “And it was one of those things where I really had to put my pride aside and, like, all my childhood issues of whatever.”