00:00Sad news. Kelly Clarkson's ex-husband, Brandon Blackstock, passed away just a few hours ago from the time we're doing this right now.
00:10Passed away from cancer. We are told that he was battling melanoma for the last three and a half years.
00:18Kelly posted last night that he was ill, and it's the first time she's really talked about this.
00:25And just hours later, he passed. What is kind of interesting is over the last few months, there have been a lot of reports that Kelly was kind of overdoing her television show, her daily talk show, that she's been absent from the show from time to time and canceled concert dates.
00:48And people were saying that this is just Kelly Clarkson being unhappy with the talk show.
00:55I can tell you that we've had conversations today that's not the case at all. It has to do directly with his illness.
01:04Exactly. So it turns out all this stuff, all the rumors and speculation about what might be wrong with her or what's going on is actually she just had to be there for her kids because their father was really sick.
01:17And it's just so sad to think that she posted this last night that I can't fulfill these dates at this residency.
01:22And again, like fans are probably disappointed and have some sort of reaction to it.
01:28And then just hours later, he unfortunately passes away.
01:31And you know, what's interesting is they had an extremely acrimonious divorce.
01:37And they had a contentious divorce. Remember, he was moving wherever, I think in Montana or something, and they were fighting over all the money.
01:43In fact, they had a ranch or she had a ranch there. He was staying in the ranch and she got him kicked off.
01:48Right. And it was even more complicated because remember, he was her manager. So he was arguing, remember, I'm due this money because I helped make your career.
01:59But the fact that like they had that contentious divorce, I mean, it says a lot about Kelly.
02:02I know they obviously have kids together, but she still clearly really cared about and loved the guy.
02:07And she was taking time away from her career, the residency, her show to basically be with him.
02:13Yeah. And, you know, the one thing I talked to somebody connected with him this morning.
02:18Um, and they said, you know, she was there for the last few months.
02:24But if you think about it, this is three and a half years ago that he was diagnosed with this.
02:30And it was in the middle of a very contentious divorce.
02:33Totally. And don't you also think it's kind of crazy that like that this never got out?
02:38Nothing about his sickness.
02:39And the staff knew.
02:40And she was getting killed in the press about, oh, why is she bailing on her fans?
02:44Right.
02:45Why is she not showing up to the show?
02:46There's all these rumors and speculation and she never said anything.
02:49There are a hundred people on this talk show.
02:51And what I'm told is that people on the talk show knew that this was going on and nobody broke the silence.
02:58That says a lot.
02:59Hi, I'm Imani.
03:00I'm from Atlanta.
03:01I do think regardless of their history, it is very sad.
03:04You know, some children lost a father, you know, regardless of their history, it is very sad.
03:09But definitely condolences to Kelly and her family.
03:11Yeah.
03:11I mean, it's you could tell at least at the end, it's interesting that those family ties kind of trumped anything that was acrimonious with the divorce.
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