Kelly Clarkson relieved to stop spousal support payments
Kelly Clarkson is relieved that she can stop paying spousal support to her ex-husband Brandon Blackstock from January 2024, per the terms of their divorce agreement.
Kelly Clarkson is relieved that she can stop paying spousal support to her ex-husband Brandon Blackstock.
The 41-year-old singer and chat show host split from the 47-year-old music manager in 2020 after seven years of marriage and they agreed that Kelly would pay spousal support of $115,000 monthly until January 2024 and a one-time, tax-free fee of $1,326,161.
A source told Us Weekly: "Kelly is feeling relieved that her spousal support to Brandon has come to an end. She’s been ready for this for a while now and is so happy her payments to Brandon will be complete. It’s so nice knowing that this chapter of her life can close with the new year.”
Kelly was granted primary custody of the former couple's children, River, nine, and Remington, seven.
She also agreed to pay $45,601 a month in child support until the children “reach the age of eighteen,” graduate high school or become self-supporting.
Meanwhile, Kelly recently insisted she isn't ready for a new relationship and said she needs to do some more "work" on herself before looking for someone new.
Speaking on her self-titled NBC talk show last month, she said: "I am still in the stage of really enjoying me but after divorce it can be hard. I think I need a little more work on me in a relationship to make sure I take care of myself at the same time as somebody else."
The 'Behind These Hazel Eyes' hitmaker revealed that even though she and her ex-husband never allowed their dogs to sleep on their bed with them when they were together, her canine companions now snuggle up with her on an evening and joked that they would probably "hate" any new man that might come in.
She added: "I cuddle with my dogs. My dogs never knew my bed...we never allowed dogs in the bed because it's for fun - that kind of fun. The good kind of fun! But ever since I’ve been separated, now divorced, my dogs have been ruling my bed. I think they would hate the next person who came in."
Kelly added that one of her dogs had been a great source of comfort to her in the initial period of "grief" as she came to terms with her marriage ending and joked that she prefers "dog love" to human love at the moment.
She said: "I would cry a lot — as you do when grief happens — Henry would come in and would force his head under my arm and just sit there with me. And I was like, ‘Is there a man like this around? Anybody?' I like dog love at the moment!"
