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 reveals due to Brandon’s sickness, and he or she wanted to be “totally current” for his or her youngsters. Simply in the future later, he died of most cancers, and plenty of wished to search out out what kind of most cancers he was residing with.
“Sadly, I must postpone the rest of the August Studio Session dates in Las Vegas,” Kelly wrote in an Instagram assertion that day. “Whereas I usually maintain my private life non-public, this previous yr, my youngsters’s father has been in poor health and at this second, I have to be totally current for them. I’m sincerely sorry to everybody who purchased tickets to the reveals, and I so admire your grace, kindness and understanding.”
Hollywood Life explains all the things we learn about Brandon’s illness beneath.
What Sickness Does Kelly Clarkson’s Ex-Husband Brandon Blackstock Have?
Sooner or later 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 instructed Folks in an announcement 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 to 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 yr,” and Kelly has saved it non-public. Again in March 2025, Kelly immediately took a quick hiatus from her discuss present, The Kelly Clarkson Present, and her silence concerning the break raised some eyebrows.
Brandon Blackstock’s Reason for Dying: How He Died
A number of noteworthy visitor hosts stuffed in for Kelly on the time. TMZ reported that Kelly was absent on account of a “private matter that [did] indirectly contain her” and that the “Breakaway” singer was “fully high quality.” 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 had been listed as “important circumstances contributing to demise however not ensuing within the underlying trigger.”
When Have been Kelly Clarkson & Brandon Blackstock Married?
Kelly and Brandon first met in 2006, however they didn’t begin courting till 2012. Shortly after getting engaged, the then-couple married in 2013 and went on to broaden their household, welcoming their youngsters: daughter River Rose and son Remington.
In 2020, Kelly filed for divorce from Brandon and cited “irreconcilable variations” as the rationale 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 % of it. She was additionally granted sole bodily custody of their youngsters. 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 youngster assist 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 through the COVID-19 pandemic.
On the subject of 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 youngsters’s response to their dad and mom’ separation.
“I actually ask my youngsters each evening once we’re snuggling, ‘Are you cheerful? And for those who’re not, what might make you happier?’” Kelly mentioned. “Generally they’ll say — particularly the previous two years — a number 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 a number of occasions it will be like, ‘, I’m simply actually unhappy. I want Mommy and Daddy had been in the identical home.’ They usually’re actually trustworthy about it.”
Now that Brandon has his interior circle and household by his aspect, associates despatched their greatest needs to him by commenting on Kelly’s Instagram submit.