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Kelly Clarkson disses ex-husband Brandon Blackstock with shady Christmas stocking

Kelly Clarkson has sent her ex-husband some shade for Christmas after a contentious legal battle over finances and property in their messy divorce.

Kelly Clarkson and Brandon Blackstock reach divorce settlement

Kelly Clarkson sent Brandon Blackstock some shade for Christmas.

The American Idol star dissed her ex-husband while promoting her album When Christmas Comes Around… Again on Wednesday.

Clarkson, 42, posted an “official album visualiser” via YouTube, which showed four stockings hanging over a fireplace.

Two of the stockings featured the names of the singer and Blackstock’s children — daughter River, 10, and son Remington, 8 — while another read, “Mom.”

The fourth, notably, was printed with the word “Nope.”

Kelly Clarkson appeared to diss her ex-husband Brandon Blackstock with this pointed message in her new Christmas video.
Kelly Clarkson appeared to diss her ex-husband Brandon Blackstock with this pointed message in her new Christmas video.
Clarkson looking better than ever at the Grammy Awards in February with son Remington. Picture: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images
Clarkson looking better than ever at the Grammy Awards in February with son Remington. Picture: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images

Social media users praised Clarkson’s shady decor, with one calling the move “healing” for the Grammy winner.

Another wrote that they were “dying” over the stocking and another labelled it “crazy” funny.

Clarkson filed for divorce from Blackstock in June 2020 after seven years of marriage.

The duo had been an item since 2012, walking down the aisle in 2013 and welcoming River and Remington in 2014 and 2016, respectively.

Clarkson “felt single” during their union, Page Six reported Wednesday.

“As time went on in their marriage, Kelly didn’t feel like she had a partner … in many ways,” an insider claimed.

The singer was married to her music manager Blackstock for nearly seven years before their split in June 2020. Picture: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images
The singer was married to her music manager Blackstock for nearly seven years before their split in June 2020. Picture: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images
The exes share two children, River Rose and Remington, and Blackstock has two children from a previous relationship, Savannah and Seth. Picture: Rich Fury/Getty Images
The exes share two children, River Rose and Remington, and Blackstock has two children from a previous relationship, Savannah and Seth. Picture: Rich Fury/Getty Images

The songwriters reached a divorce settlement in March 2022 after a contentious legal battle over property.

Clarkson has not dated publicly since splitting from the talent manager — and her children like it that way.

“They constantly bring it up: ‘Please, we don’t want you to be with anybody else,’” she told KSOT 103.5 listeners in November. “They’re young, so it’s hard to picture their mum with someone else other than their dad.”

However, the Kelly Clarkson Show host joked, “Hey, I love you guys, but Mummy needs loving, too!”

This article originally appeared in Page Six and was reproduced with permission

Originally published as Kelly Clarkson disses ex-husband Brandon Blackstock with shady Christmas stocking

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