Kelly Clarkson reveals heartbreaking news on ex-husband Brandon Blackstock as she CANCELS Las Vegas residency

Kelly Clarkson threw her fans for a loop on Wednesday when she announced the postponement of her remaining Las Vegas residency concerts in August.

The 43-year-old singer announced on social media that she was forced to put the shows on hold as the result of a family emergency.

DailyMail.com has reached out to Clarkson’s representative to request comment.

The unexpected shakeup in her concert schedule comes after the former American Idol star missed ten episodes of her talk show earlier this year while staying silent about what pulled her away without warning.

In a statement shared to X, Clarkson revealed that it was an issue with her ex-husband Brandon Blackstock that forced her to step away from the stage.

‘Unfortunately, I need to postpone the remainder of the August Studio Session dates in Las Vegas,’ she wrote.

Kelly Clarkson threw her fans for a loop when she announced that heartbreaking family news involving her ex-husband Brandon Blackstock had forced her to postpone her remaining Las Vegas residency shows in August; pictured July 11 in Las Vegas

Clarkson and Blackstock (L) married in 2013 and split in 2020. Their divorce was finalized two years later, but their legal wrangling over financial matters related to his time as her manager continued; pictured in 2013 in Las Vegas

Clarkson wrote that Blackstock ‘has been ill’ over the past year, so she was forced to postpone the rest of her August residency dates to care for her children

‘While I normally keep my personal life private, this past year, my children’s father has been ill and at this moment, I need to be fully present for them.

‘I am sincerely sorry to everyone who bought tickets to the shows and I so appreciate your grace, kindness and understanding,’ she concluded.

Clarkson didn’t include information about what would happen to fans who had already purchased tickets to her postponed residency dates.

She and her ex-husband share two young children: daughter River, 11, and son Remington, nine.

Earlier this year, Clarkson appeared to take a veiled jab at her ex-husband.

During a March appearance on Kylie Kelce’s podcast Not Gonna Lie, Clarkson agreed with Kelce that her children were more accommodating of their father’s scheduling conflicts than of her own busy schedule.

She noted how odd it was that River and Remington seem to ‘innately’ have the belief that Blackstock should be given more slack about being too busy to spend time with them.

‘Isn’t it funny though how different it is? Even from a young age, we didn’t teach them, just innately you’re like . . . he’s allowed to be somewhere, but you’re not? That is like real interesting. Yeah, there’s a lot that I keep in,’ Clarkson said.

Clarkson and her ex-husband share two young children: daughter River, 11, and son Remington, nine; pictured in 2022 in Hollywood

Earlier this year, Clarkson complained on Kylie Kelcie’s Not Gonna Lie podcast that her children were ‘innately’ more accommodating to Blackstock’s busy schedule, but not hers; pictured with Remington in February 2024 in LA

In 2023, Clarkson won a $2.6 million judgement against Blackstock for commissions she had paid to him after the California Labor Commission ruled he had broken its rules by setting up deals for her as her manager, instead of letting her talent agency handle them; seen in 2020

‘’Cause co-parenting is fun!’ she added. ‘It’s like, “Oh, he couldn’t come cause of this.” ‘I’m like, “OK, cool. What! Do you think I just leave and just sit in the park all day?”’

Clarkson’s relationship with Blackstock began in 2012, and the two tied the knot the following year.

They had both a romantic and professional relationship at first, as her husband also served as her manager.

However, Clarkson filed for divorce in June 2020 on grounds of irreconcilable differences, and the two were subsequently engaged in years of legal wrangling related to their finances.

Their messy divorce was reported to have been finalized in March of 2022, but it wasn’t until a year later that Clarkson won a $2.6 million judgment against her husband.

Clarkson had claimed her husband owed her millions in commissions that he should not have been able to collect for deals that he set up that should have been handled by a talent agent, rather than her manager, and the California Labor Commissioner ultimately agreed.

It ruled that Blackstock had overstepped by working around Clarkson’s agents at Creative Artists Agency.

In May 2024, the warring exes finally reached a settlement in Clarkson’s lawsuit over the commission fees.

The hitmaker’s had previously won the $2.6 million judgement for deals Blackstock had secured for her going back to 2017, but she had claimed he had been taking the place of her talent agents while serving as her manager going back as far as 2007, so she had requested a more thorough accounting of commissions paid to her ex-husband.