Everything Kelly Clarkson Has Said About Love, Sex & Divorce With Brandon Blackstock Over the Years - See the Quotes

Kelly Clarkson is of course known for her incredible singing voice, but she’s also made herself a household name for her down-to-earth demeanor, humor and honesty.

The Kelly Clarkson Show host has not held back in addressing her current divorce from Brandon Blackstock after nearly seven years of marriage, but she’s also been open throughout her whole career about the ups and downs of her love life.

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From falling in love, to getting hot and heavy in the bedroom, to addressing painful parts of her past, Kelly has constantly opened up about her romantic experiences, resulting in some very relatable and inspirational quotes along the way.

Find out everything Kelly Clarkson has said about love, sex and divorce…

“It’s weird how life kind of puts you in certain situations. We’re taking it slow, and we’re enjoying each other. I’m from a family of broken marriages, but we will definitely break that trend one day,” she told Ryan Seacrest of her then blossoming relationship with Brandon back in 2012.

Kelly also gushed about her romance on Ellen in 2012.

“We are totally going to get married. We love each other. We are totally going to get married one day. No, he has two children and I’m new…You know you want to like…I mean he’s got to put it a ring at some point,” she said.

“You know what and this is going to sound like I’m making a joke but it is so not. It is serious. I am not alone for the first time for Thanksgiving and Christmas and I am very happy. So, yeah. Seriously, I’ve been praying for so long and he’s so great. So I can just spend it with someone… my boyfriend’s so going to make fun of me.”

Back in 2013, Kelly explained her initial choice to elope to People: “We are so busy that we finally just came to terms the other night and were like, ‘So, we change our minds and we want to elope.’ We just got so overwhelmed by it – all the decisions,” she said.

“We sent out a save-the-date to everyone and then it got crazy and all the details were leaking. Then honestly the planning – I have a Christmas record coming out. I’m doing a bunch of stuff with State Farm right now. We have two kids who just started school. We’re going to all these football games and soccer games and volleyball games and [Brandon]‘s got one of the biggest artists [Blake Shelton] in country music. He’s flying everywhere.”

She added that she “sent out an engagement photo to everyone and said, ‘Thank you so much for understanding, but it’s just going to be me and Brandon and his two kids and the minister.’”

“I have a certain level of peace I didn’t know was going to come with it. My best friend always says, ‘You just want to create the family you never had.’ I might be doing that. In defense of my family, it happens. People fall out of love, and people go separate ways. People are human. I’ve accomplished a lot, but I guess the biggest success I want is that whenever I die people will say, ‘She was so successful as a mother, and as a wife.’ That’s kind of my big goal,” Kelly said of being a wife and a mother to People in 2015.

“I always swore ours would not be a relationship where we have to schedule sex. That is never going to happen. We put each other first. I call it the oxygen-mask mentality–take care of yourself first!” she said of her love life to Redbook in 2015.

She also said Brandon was not her other half: “Goodness, no! Brandon is not my other half. He’s a whole and I’m a whole. I’ve never believed in someone taking care of me, and that’s probably because I grew up poor and without a lot of family stability.”

Kelly revealed back in 2017 that she thought she was asexual before meeting Brandon.

“This isn’t a downer to anybody I dated before him, but I’m just going to be real: I never felt like, honesty, sexually attracted to anybody before him. And I’m not downing my exes. You know, everybody’s different. But there was something about him.”

“I honestly thought I was asexual – I’d never been turned on like that in my whole life. I was like, ‘Oh that’s that feeling… okay! That’s what they were talking about in Waiting to Exhale. I just got it. I just didn’t have a clue.”

She explained that when she met Brandon for the first time in 2006, when he was still married to his first wife, she “felt something” and was “ready to take it all off.” They later met again in 2012 after he had gotten divorced.

“We didn’t really know each other, I had just met him that one time. Just from that one time, even six years later, I had never really dated anyone. I honest to God thought, ‘Is this what it’s like to be asexual?’ I was just not attracted to people.”

At the end of December of 2019, Kelly got candid about her active sex life with her husband on her show.

“I was single for many years, so…I have children. And how one makes children is generally what I do before bed. That’s not a lie,” Kelly said while laughing.

“That’s real. And it’s not weird! It’s natural!”

Kelly talked about her divorce on Sunday Today in mid-September 2020.

“I mean, it’s no secret. My life has been a little bit of a dumpster…personally, it’s been a little hard the last couple months…I’ve been talking to friends that have been through divorce. I don’t know how people go through that without having some kind of outlet because it is the worst thing ever for everyone involved,” she said.

Kelly addressed her divorce head-on during the Season 2 premiere of The Kelly Clarkson Show in September 2020.

“What I’m dealing with is hard because it involves more than just my heart. It involves a lot of little hearts. We have four kids. Divorce is never easy. We’re both from divorced families so we know the best thing is to protect our children and their little hearts. So, I’m usually very open and I usually talk about everything. But in this case, I will talk a little bit here and there about how it affects me personally.”

“But I probably won’t go too far into it, because I’m a mama bear and my kids come first. Although, I do love you all. But I am okay. Everybody keeps asking and I am. The answer is yes,” she added.

“I know a lot of you at home unfortunately have probably been through it, either as a kid or just as yourself in your own relationships. I feel you! And it is a bad connection to have with people,” she went on to say. Here’s what else she said…

Kelly opened up about her new album in February of 2021, which addresses her personal life honestly.

“There’s just a lot of questions that I have to answer before releasing it for myself, you know? Whether that be businesswise or personally or whatever. Whatever happens though, it is such a gift,” she said.

“Like, I don’t know how anybody, I’ll just be real with you, goes through grief like divorce, any kind of grief, any kind of loss, without having an outlet like this,” she continued.

“I have written like 60 songs, it is an insane amount of getting it out. I think that’s a blessing in itself. Anytime you go through some life, it’s such an awesome thing to have that outlet, regardless of whether people hear it or not.” Here’s what else she said.

Kelly also just purchased a $5.4 million mansion in California.

“I got a new house, it’s very white and clean … and I also redid my office here [at the show]. I looked at Kevin in our art department and I was like, ‘Please help me make this make sense.’ I just wanted to feel happy. The colors make me feel very good,” she said on her talk show about the purchase. Get all the details!