Brandon Blackstock, Kelly Clarkson’s ex-husband, was in a “loving” relationship with Brittney Marie Jones, her former manufacturing assistant and his government assistant, on the time of his demise, in response to an obituary shared on-line by his household.
Blackstock died on Aug. 7 at his house in Butte, Mont., after a three-year battle with melanoma, a type of pores and skin most cancers.
The obituary describes Jones as Blackstock’s “stunning and loving companion in life and enterprise.” Blackstock and Jones had “began constructing a life, constructing firms, and dealing tirelessly to create Headwaters Livestock Public sale and what is going to reside on as his legacy, The Valley View Rodeo in Bozeman, Montana,” per the obituary, which was posted to the Axelson Funeral & Cremation Providers web site in Butte.
It makes no point out of Clarkson, with whom he shared two kids: their 11-year-old daughter, River Rose, and Remy Alexander, their 9-year-old son. They had been married from 2013 to 2020, when Clarkson filed for divorce. A highly-publicized and acrimonious break up adopted. Their divorce was finalized in 2022.
Clarkson and Blackstock on the CMT Music Awards in 2018. (Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic through Getty Photos)
The obituary additionally doesn’t point out Blackstock’s first spouse, Melissa Ashworth, with whom he shared two kids: Savannah, 23, and Seth, 18. Blackstock and Ashworth had been married from 2001 to 2012. (Savannah revealed in July that she is anticipating her second baby along with her husband early subsequent yr.)
All of Blackstock’s kids and grandchildren are named within the obit, in addition to his dad and mom, stepparents (together with his former stepmother, Reba McEntire), grandparents, siblings, stepsiblings and son-in-law.
Who’s Brittney Marie Jones?
Based on Folks journal, Jones was Clarkson’s former manufacturing assistant.
Jones labored full-time for Clarkson in Nashville from 2016 to 2018, in response to her LinkedIn profile. Jones served as Blackstock’s government assistant at Starstruck Leisure, the expertise company based by his father, from 2018 to 2020.
As a part of that position, Jones was “based mostly in Los Angeles to be on the set of The Kelly Clarkson Present” and helped handle Clarkson’s day-to-day schedule, in response to the LinkedIn web page.
In June 2020, the identical month Clarkson filed for divorce, she grew to become an government assistant at V Bar V Cattle Co., a Montana ranch owned by Blackstock.
The day earlier than Blackstock’s demise, Clarkson revealed that she was suspending the remaining August dates of her Las Vegas residency to help her kids amid Blackstock’s sickness.
Brandon Blackstock and Kelly Clarkson attend a ceremony honoring Simon Cowell’s star on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame in August 2018. (Faye Sadou/AdMedia /MediaPunch/IPX)
“Sadly, I must postpone the rest of the August Studio Session dates in Las Vegas,” Clarkson introduced in a publish on Instagram. “Whereas I usually preserve my private life non-public, this previous yr, my kids’s father has been in poor health and at this second, I must be totally current for them.”
Blackstock’s demise was introduced the subsequent day.
“It’s with nice unhappiness that we share the information that Brandon Blackstock has handed away,” a consultant for his household mentioned in a press release to a number of information shops. “Brandon bravely battled most cancers for greater than three years. He handed away peacefully and was surrounded by household. We thanks on your ideas and prayers and ask everybody to respect the household’s privateness throughout this very tough time.”
