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Kelly Clarkson wanted to prove she could withstand whatever was thrown her way. She knew her marriage to Brandon Blackstock was beyond salvage, but she had difficulty admitting she couldn’t fix it. So she stayed. “I’m like, ‘I can do this. I can handle so much,’” she said on the “We Can Do Hard Things” podcast in June. “My ego is like, ‘I can control my actions, I can control my reactions, I can do this, and I can reach this person, and I can get through.’”
Clarkson’s main motivation for staying was River Rose and Remington. Going through the divorce of her parents when she was a 6-year-old left a deep mark, even serving as the inspiration for her hit “Because of You,” written when she was 16. “Divorce isn’t fun,” she told the Mirror in 2012. “It affects relationships you get into when you are older.” Clarkson’s childhood experience was made more traumatic because her father left the picture, something she admitted to the podcast hosts.
Blackstock’s own experiences as the son of divorced parents also contributed to it. “If I’m being completely honest, we don’t want to do what we saw done,” she said. Ultimately, Clarkson came to understand that staying in a marriage that was serving neither of the parents was doing the kids no good. “After, I’m a far better mother. Because I think when you’re honest with yourself, you’re able to be honest with others,” she said.
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