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Here’s Every Messy Detail Of Kelly Clarkson’s Divorce

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Kelly Clarkson’s marriage looked like a country-pop fairy tale until the paperwork started piling up in a Los Angeles courtroom.

Clarkson filed for divorce from her husband and manager Brandon Blackstock in June 2020, ending a marriage that began in October 2013 and produced two children, daughter River Rose and son Remington “Remy” Alexander. The filing cited irreconcilable differences, but the fallout has stretched across more than a year of custody rulings, dueling support demands, and a separate lawsuit involving Blackstock’s father’s management company. Clarkson has tried to keep the details out of the press — she hasn’t always succeeded.

• A Los Angeles County court gave Clarkson primary physical custody of River Rose and Remy in late November 2020, ruling that Blackstock’s plan to live full-time on the couple’s Montana ranch made shared physical custody unworkable.
• In July 2021, after Blackstock had sought upwards of $436,000 a month in temporary support and $2 million toward his legal fees, a judge instead ordered Clarkson to pay roughly $150,000 a month in spousal support and about $45,600 a month in child support.
• In August 2021, a judge upheld the validity of the couple’s prenuptial agreement, keeping Clarkson’s separate assets out of the settlement — even as Starstruck Management Group, run by Blackstock’s father Narvel, pursued a separate suit against her.

The Custody Fight Over River Rose and Remy

The most personal battleground in the divorce was always going to be the kids. Blackstock wanted to split time between Los Angeles and the family’s Montana ranch, but the court sided with Clarkson, awarding her primary physical custody in late November 2020 and granting Blackstock visitation rights rather than a shared arrangement. Clarkson has repeatedly said she’s trying to shield River Rose and Remy from the public fallout, telling audiences on The Kelly Clarkson Show and in press interviews that she’d rather absorb the criticism than let it touch her children.

“I’m a mama bear more than I am a person in the public eye.”

That instinct hasn’t stopped the case from generating headlines anyway, especially once the money side of the split turned into its own protracted fight — not unlike the drawn-out proceedings detailed in The Real Reason Phaedra Parks Got Divorced, where custody and finances became just as tangled as the marriage itself.

The Support Numbers That Made Headlines

Blackstock initially asked the court for more than $436,000 a month in temporary spousal and child support, plus $2 million to cover his attorneys. That request didn’t hold up. In July 2021, a judge instead ordered Clarkson to pay approximately $150,000 a month in spousal support and roughly $45,600 a month in child support, along with a contribution toward Blackstock’s legal representation — a fraction of what he originally sought, but still a substantial monthly outlay tied directly to Clarkson’s earnings.

The Montana Ranch Standoff

Property became its own flashpoint. Blackstock chose to walk away from entertainment management altogether to work full-time as a rancher, settling into the couple’s Montana property, while Clarkson has pushed to sell it. The disagreement over the ranch has run parallel to the support fight, another asset the two sides can’t agree on unwinding — a dynamic that echoes how messy the split covered in Everything We Know About Hoda Kotb’s Split From Joel Schiffman got once real estate and finances entered the picture.

The Starstruck Management Lawsuit and the Prenup

The divorce didn’t stay contained to Clarkson and Blackstock. In September 2020, Starstruck Management Group — the company run by Blackstock’s father, Narvel Blackstock, which had managed Clarkson’s career — sued her, claiming more than $1.4 million in unpaid commissions. Clarkson fired back with a petition to the California Labor Commission, arguing that Brandon and Narvel Blackstock had acted as unlicensed talent agents in violation of the California Talent Agencies Act, which would render their management agreements null and void.

Then, in August 2021, a judge upheld the validity of Clarkson and Blackstock’s prenuptial agreement, a ruling that preserved her separate assets and gave her side a clear win heading into the next stretch of the case.

With the prenup intact and the support numbers set, the fight now sits mostly on the ranch — Blackstock is living on it full-time as a rancher, Clarkson still wants it sold, and until that gets resolved, the two sides aren’t done writing checks to each other’s lawyers.