Regardless of her divorce from ex-husband Brandon Blackstock, Kelly Clarkson is prioritizing her household above her profession. On August 6, 2025, the “Due to You” artist postponed her Las Vegas exhibits due to Brandon’s sickness, and she or he wanted to be “totally current” for his or her kids. Simply in the future later, he died of most cancers, and lots of wished to seek out out what kind of most cancers he was residing with.
“Sadly, I have to postpone the rest of the August Studio Session dates in Las Vegas,” Kelly wrote in an Instagram assertion that day. “Whereas I usually hold my private life personal, this previous 12 months, my kids’s father has been ailing and at this second, I have to be totally current for them. I’m sincerely sorry to everybody who purchased tickets to the exhibits, and I so admire your grace, kindness and understanding.”
Hollywood Life explains all the pieces we learn about Brandon’s illness under.
What Sickness Does Kelly Clarkson’s Ex-Husband Brandon Blackstock Have?
In the future after Kelly introduced the postponement of her tour, it was revealed that Brandon was battling most cancers, and he died.
“It’s with nice disappointment that we share the information that Brandon Blackstock has handed away,” a rep for Brandon’s household advised Folks in a press release on August 7, 2025. “Brandon bravely battled most cancers for greater than three years. He handed away peacefully and was surrounded by household. We thanks on your ideas and prayers and ask everybody to respect the household’s privateness throughout this very troublesome time.”
TMZ reported that the kind of most cancers Brandon had was melanoma: a type of pores and skin most cancers.
As said in her Instagram announcement, Brandon has been sick “this previous 12 months,” and Kelly has stored it personal. Again in March 2025, Kelly all of a sudden took a short hiatus from her speak present, The Kelly Clarkson Present, and her silence concerning the break raised some eyebrows.
Brandon Blackstock’s Reason behind Dying: How He Died
A number of noteworthy visitor hosts stuffed in for Kelly on the time. TMZ reported that Kelly was absent attributable to a “private matter that [did] indirectly contain her” and that the “Breakaway” singer was “utterly effective.” She returned to her present shortly thereafter and by no means defined her transient disappearance. The next week, Silver Bow County Coroner Dan Hollis confirmed to Folks that Brandon’s explanation for demise was melanoma and that his method of demise was from pure causes.
In Brandon’s demise certificates, seizures have been listed as “vital circumstances contributing to demise however not ensuing within the underlying trigger.”
When Had been Kelly Clarkson & Brandon Blackstock Married?
Kelly and Brandon first met in 2006, however they didn’t begin relationship till 2012. Shortly after getting engaged, the then-couple married in 2013 and went on to broaden their household, welcoming their kids: daughter River Rose and son Remington.
In 2020, Kelly filed for divorce from Brandon and cited “irreconcilable variations” as the explanation behind their separation. A prolonged divorce ensued over the ex-spouses’ Montana ranch, with Kelly being granted possession of the property however rewarding Brandon with 5 p.c of it. She was additionally granted sole bodily custody of their kids. The American Idol alum was subsequently ordered to pay her ex-husband a one-time fee of greater than $1 million along with month-to-month spousal helps and baby help funds.
Why Did Kelly Clarkson & Ex-Husband Brandon Blackstock Divorce?
Kelly has mentioned her and Brandon’s divorce in a number of interviews through the years. She has repeatedly said that her marriage simply didn’t work out, whereas a number of shops reported that Kelly and Brandon began clashing once they quarantined collectively in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.
With regards to their youngsters, although, Kelly has acknowledged how troublesome the divorce was on river Rose and Remington. Throughout a March 2023 interview on “The Angie Martinez IRL Podcast,” the mom of two revealed her kids’s response to their dad and mom’ separation.
“I actually ask my youngsters each evening once we’re snuggling, ‘Are you content? And for those who’re not, what may make you happier?’” Kelly stated. “Typically they’ll say — particularly the previous two years — loads of it — and it kills me — and I need them to be trustworthy, so I don’t ever say, ‘Oh God, don’t inform me that.’ However loads of occasions it might be like, ‘You recognize, I’m simply actually unhappy. I want Mommy and Daddy have been in the identical home.’ And so they’re actually trustworthy about it.”
Now that Brandon has his inside circle and household by his facet, buddies despatched their finest needs to him by commenting on Kelly’s Instagram submit.
