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Kelly Clarkson is prepared for a contemporary new begin. The discuss present maven and hitmaker, 41, revealed in a brand new interview why she’s heading to New York Metropolis with her youngsters and her eponymous present. “I like this query as a result of I haven’t really been in a position to speak about this so much,” she instructed Nancy O’Dell throughout a Thursday, Might 25 look on TalkShopLive. “I used to be like, ‘You guys’…and it was by tears, trigger I’ve constructed such an incredible group of individuals.
“Clearly, we’ve been very profitable, and I like all people I work with, and we now have such nice relationships,” she continued. “So I talked to them as a result of I used to be like, ‘Guys I would like you to know what’s occurring. It’s both I’m not going to have the ability to proceed with the present, or I received to go East Coast.’”
Kelly went on to clarify that her prolonged household is again East — a undeniable fact that grew to become much more painfully obvious in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic years. “Covid identified being remoted and so removed from your loved ones is just not good for anybody,” she mentioned. “And my household is East Coast — they’re North Carolina-based. So it was a kind of issues the place I simply needed to — additionally there was numerous private issues happening, too.”
These “private” issues doubtless embody her 2020 cut up from ex-husband Brandon Blackstock, with whom she shares two younger youngsters, River and Remington. The divorce wasn’t finalized till March of 2022, when the American Idol alum was ordered to pay her ex $45,600 per thirty days in youngster assist, and a whopping $115,000 per thirty days in spousal assist, per TMZ.
However there’s additionally the matter of being accused of a poisonous work setting on the set of The Kelly Clarkson present — one thing she has known as “unfaithful.” “I’m getting too outdated to work in an setting that isn’t wholesome and enjoyable,” she mentioned in the course of the interview. “I had to try this for years in conferences and dealing with actually extremely imply individuals typically, so I simply didn’t wish to try this anymore. I’m targeted wholly on the discuss present for a minute, however I additionally am engaged on issues within the background.”