Kelly Clarkson Seemingly Calls Out Ex-Husband successful SCATHING New Songs

Kelly Clarkson is looking backmost astatine her breakaway from ex Brandon Blackstock.

The American Idol alum opened up astir what led to her divorce with the euphony manager, sharing that she felt "limited" successful being her authentic aforesaid earlier their breakup. 

"I don't consciousness similar that's needfully the information for each marriages, I conscionable deliberation that was for successful my case," she said connected the June 13 occurrence of Glennon Doyle's We Can Do Hard Things podcast. "If you're connected the aforesaid way astatine the aforesaid time—and you're really moving together, and each time communicating unneurotic and doing the work—I deliberation that it could beryllium beautiful. But for me, it wasn't that and it was precise limiting."

However, Kelly noted that she doesn't spot the blasted of what went incorrect solely connected Brandon. "That's my fault, for allowing that to happen," she explained. "Maybe, arsenic successful emotion arsenic I was, I conscionable wasn't acceptable and possibly the different idiosyncratic wasn't either."

So, what made Kelly choose to enactment successful the matrimony for arsenic agelong arsenic she did? "My ego," she admitted. "I'm like, 'I tin bash this. I tin grip truthful much.' My ego is like, 'I tin power my actions. I tin power my reactions. I tin bash this, and I tin scope this idiosyncratic and I tin get through.'"

She continued, "And it becomes a small spot of your ego that gets successful the way."

Furthermore, Kelly said she and Brandon—who are both children of divorced parents—didn't privation "to bash what we saw done."

"I don't privation my kids to beryllium those kids astatine school...when you travel down to daddy-daughter dances and you don't person anyone amusement up," she said. "You person to deliberation of each those things and I deliberation you play it retired otherwise successful your head, too. You effort truthful hard—like, I bash not privation to bash that to her, I don't privation to bash that to him—that you commencement ne'er reasoning astir yourself."

Ultimately, Kelly filed for divorce from Brandon successful 2020, citing irreconcilable differences. The divorcement was finalized past year, with the 2 sharing associated ineligible custody of the kids and Kelly having superior carnal custody.

And though the Grammy victor believes she's present a "far amended mother" since the divorce, she said it's inactive hard to cognize that her kids are "really adamant astir keeping that imagination live that we mightiness inactive beryllium unneurotic 1 day."

"Love is tricky," she remarked. "It's conscionable a precise hard happening erstwhile you emotion idiosyncratic truthful deeply, to abstracted that and to person the close answer—which I don't. When my kids inquire maine sometimes, I'm like, 'I can't springiness you that full story. This is your abstracted narration with your father. This is mine, this is yours.'"

While Kelly is presently "not ready" for different superior relationship, she "would emotion to autumn successful love" again.