The invention was made within the obituary of the late businessman, who was married to the Grammy winner for over seven years earlier than their divorce.

Now, in what may come as a shock to followers of Kelly Clarkson, it has been revealed that Brandon Blackstock has been courting the singer’s former assistant up till his remaining days in Montana.

In accordance with Blackstock’s obituary, which was launched on Tuesday, he has been in a quiet relationship with a girl recognized as Brittney Marie Jones.

“After greater than 20 years within the music enterprise, Brandon discovered his approach again to the mountains and the cowboy lifestyle he at all times wished to reside,” the obituary said, per the Every day Mail. “He discovered a homestead and a love in Butte, Montana.”

It continued, “Brandon, alongside together with his stunning and loving companion in life and enterprise, Brittney Marie Jones, began constructing a life, constructing firms, and dealing tirelessly to create Headwaters Livestock Public sale and what’s going to reside on as his legacy, The Valley View Rodeo in Bozeman, Montana.”

A December 2024 report on Blackstock and Jones’s rodeo enterprise labeled Jones as Clarkson’s “former assistant.”

Moreover, a LinkedIn profile for Jones has her describing herself as an individual who “efficiently assistant managed everyday for artist, Kelly Clarkson, underneath supervisor, Brandon Blackstock, in Los Angeles for music and tv.”

In accordance with The Solar, Jones famous on her profile that she finally turned the “Govt Assistant for Mr. Blackstock’s cattle operation in Montana,” the place she dealt with the executive work.

The shock revelation comes after Blackstock handed away as a consequence of melanoma.

Away from Blackstock’s romance, it was reported that Clarkson is heartbroken for her kids following the dying of their father.

The pair acquired married in 2013, however break up after 7 years as Clarkson filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable variations. They share two kids, a daughter named River, and a son named Remy.

Sources have shared that the singer’s unhappiness isn’t just a response to the loss, however that she’s “devastated” for them, because it now places them in an analogous state of affairs she endured as a baby when her father left her.

Clarkson has not had a lot of a relationship along with her father, Stephen Clarkson, who left the household when she was younger, with an insider telling Web page Six, “they’re basically estranged.”

In reality, she did all she may to spare her kids from experiencing what it meant to not have a relationship with their father regardless of her messy divorce from Blackstock, which was settled in 2022.

“Kelly’s greatest concern through the divorce was that her youngsters would develop up feeling distant from their father,” the supply informed the information outlet.

“She at all times wished to spare them that. She’s devastated for them,” they shared.

Blackstock, who was additionally Clarkson’s former supervisor, handed away on the age of 48 after an extended and personal battle with melanoma. Stories counsel that the “Due to You” singer was by his aspect throughout his remaining weeks and notably took breaks from her hit NBC speak present “The Kelly Clarkson Present” to are likely to him and their kids.

“Regardless that issues weren’t good along with her and Brandon for some time earlier than they break up — after which they acquired positively nuclear through the divorce proceedings — completely none of that ever modified Kelly’s backside line: her youngsters deserved to develop up having an exquisite relationship with their dad,” the insider who spoke with Web page Six defined.

They famous that she has had a “very strained relationship along with her personal father her total life.” Nonetheless, when she and Blackstock first acquired collectively, he notably drove dwelling “how necessary it was that his relationship together with his youngsters remained sturdy.”

“Their bond wasn’t going to finish simply because that marriage did,” they added.

Clarkson seemingly picked up a lesson or two from her ex-husband, who additionally had two kids, Savannah and Seth, from his first marriage to Melissa Ashworth.

The insider shared that regardless of all their points, Clarkson realized by observing Blackstock from their first days collectively, noting how he “by no means badmouthed his first spouse round his youngsters, and he by no means let that divorce get in the way in which of their bond.”

“So Kelly knew she would do the identical factor,” they mentioned. Talking on Clarkson’s kids, the supply famous that their father’s dying “will change them eternally, and it is a tragedy that has simply wrecked [Clarkson].”