Kelly Clarkson.Photo:Steve Granitz/FilmMagic
Steve Granitz/FilmMagic
BeforeKelly Clarkson’s vulnerable new albumChemistrydrops on Friday, she’s opening up about how she’s processed life after herdivorce from ex-husband Brandon Blackstock.
In a new interview withET Canada, the Grammy winner spoke about “regularly” going to therapy since she was married to Blackstock and how it’s helped her.
The “Since U Been Gone” musician, who filed for divorce from Blackstock in 2020 after nearly seven years of marriage, said she’s “been regularly doing” therapy: “I do love it.”
Brandon Blackstock and Kelly Clarkson.Kevin Mazur/Getty
Kevin Mazur/Getty
“I actually started when I was married, you know, obviously having difficulties and… not just about the relationships, just in general, I’d never really done regular therapy or anything like that,” Clarkson told the outlet.
“Usually, honestly, writing is therapeutic for me and I have a really great group of friends, so I feel like I have a good, you know, listening party and like to bounce things off of thoughts and feelings or whatever,” she added. “But it literally was a really good turning point for me.”
Clarkson noted that therapists “give you so many tools for how to navigate certain situations” and said it’s “really helpful” to speak with “somebody outside your circle that doesn’t know anything but just knows what’s happening in the now.”
She wrote through the positives and negatives of her marriage onChemistryand toldET Canadathat her songwriting generally occurs as she’s “going through something.”
Kelly Clarkson.Weiss Eubanks/NBCUniversal via Getty
“That’s why I always say like people’s best work of art, whether you’re a sculptor, painter, writer, whatever you are, it’s usually after a hard time because that’s when they’re feeling everything so intensely, the artist, right?”
Last week, Clarkson had a personal conversation onWe Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyleand revealed what kept her from leaving her marriage for so long.
“My ego… [I thought,] ‘I can do this. I can handle so much.’ My ego is, ‘I can control my actions, I can control my reactions, I can do this and I can reach this person and I can get through.’ It becomes a little bit of your ego that gets in the way,” she told the host.
“If I’m being completely honest, we don’t want to do what we saw done,” continued Clarkson, whose parents also got divorced when she was 6 years old. “I don’t want my kids to be those kids at school.”
Kelly Clarkson, Brandon Blackstock, Savannah, River Rose, Remington Alexander and Seth.Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
Clarkson shares sonRemington “Remy” Alexander, 7, and daughterRiver Rose, 9, with Blackstock.
“It’s a little different — they grew up here and it’s a very progressive city. But in the South, there was like two of us with divorced parents in our class. So it was very different,” she said. “Even when you come down to like, daddy-daughter dances and you don’t have anyone show up. You have to think about all of those things and you play it out differently in your head too.”
The “Miss Independent” singer added, “You try so hard and you think, ‘I do not want to do that to her, I don’t want to do that to him’ — that you never start thinking about yourself. That’s why sometimes to be selfish was important to me.”
source: people.com
