Kelly Clarkson Blushes & Giggles After Her Hilarious Comment About “Meat”

When Kelly Clarkson is acceptable for a change, she doesn't messiness around.

Increasingly unhappy in Los Angeles, wherever her Emmy-winning speech show had been based since 2019, the "Stronger" vocalist followed her interior compass to New York past year—not adjacent knowing if a diehard Dallas Cowboys instrumentality similar her could genuinely consciousness astatine home—and hasn't looked back. 

"Sometimes you don't know what beingness has successful store for you," Clarkson told People in January, "and you deliberation your beingness is going to spell 1 way, and it's good that it doesn't. You ne'er cognize however beauteous that mightiness be."

She was, of course, talking astir much than heading east.

The Grammy winner, who is celebrating her 42nd day April 24, had to regroup portion by piece pursuing her drawn-out divorce from Brandon Blackstock (which, contempt being finalized successful 2022, is still playing retired successful court). And she was near in dire request of caller surroundings for her and the kids she shares with her ex, girl River Rose, 9, and lad Remington "Remy" Alexander, 8.

"For the past fewer years I'd conscionable been showing up and smiling and doing what I'm expected to do," Clarkson said, "but you tin lone compartmentalize truthful agelong until you break."

"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 [marriage] could beryllium beautiful," Clarkson reflected past year connected Glennon Doyle's We Can Do Hard Things podcast. "But for me, it wasn't that and it was precise limiting."

She pointed to her ain ego arsenic to wherefore she stayed joined for 7 years contempt what felt similar a changeless crippled of "tug-of-war" betwixt her and Blackstock.

"I'm like, 'I tin bash this. I tin grip truthful much,'" she explained. "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.' And it becomes a small spot of your ego that gets successful the way."

"I was like, 'I'm not surviving present unless it's close by the parkland and truly bully for the kids,'" Clarkson told USA Today in October. She admittedly would person picked Montana, wherever she already owns a home, "but you can't truly bash a amusement from determination rather yet. So I was like, 'The lone different enactment would astir apt beryllium New York.'"

Taking that leap of faith, which besides included leaving L.A.-based The Voice last outpouring aft a full of 9 seasons, has been good worthy it.

"I americium successful specified a large place, not lone with my kids, but with maine personally and with the show," Clarkson continued. "I consciousness similar a value has lifted. That determination was precise needed. I deliberation the happening I'm astir excited about...on a selfish level, is conscionable showing up to enactment smiling and really meaning it. That's a beauteous acquisition that you don't recognize until you're retired of it."

Even better, of course, is enactment and household going manus successful hand, such as erstwhile Remy and River joined her onstage during her Las Vegas residency past summer, oregon her daughter contributing vocals to "You Don't Make Me Cry," disconnected the deluxe mentation of her 10th workplace album, Chemistry, which came retired past June.

"They some are small entertainers," Clarkson told E! News. "They emotion pretend. They emotion marque judge and creating worlds." Hence her telephone being afloat of videos of Remy (who accompanied Mom to the Grammys successful February) and River "dancing oregon singing oregon acting oregon doing thing successful the house."

Whether they travel her footsteps into showbiz oregon not, the vocalist relishes being capable to "just amusement them everything that you deliberation mightiness beryllium adjuvant and spot wherever they go."

And in the meantime, Clarkson has acceptable her compass toward happiness and is staying the course.

"I deliberation it's what you situation yourself with," she said connected TODAY. "Making definite you're surrounding yourself with radical that you stock akin things, evidently radical that advancement you arsenic well, arsenic a human. Like, what makes you happy? And if it doesn't marque you happy, conscionable halt doing it." 

Which she knows from acquisition is easier said than done.

So possibly her adjacent medium volition be called "Happy Days Are Here Again," astatine slightest successful spirit. (Though we wouldn't entity to more Barbra Streisand covers if she truthful desires.)

Life is "so afloat successful the champion of ways," Clarkson told People. "It could beryllium afloat of chaos—because it has been astatine times—and it's not. It's conscionable afloat successful the astir beauteous ways. Everything is hitting connected each cylinders."

Meanwhile, we cognize each you ever wanted was much household snaps, truthful support speechmaking to spot the sweetest pics from Clarkson's beauteous satellite with Remy and River: