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During a recent episode of her talk show, Kelly Clarkson opened up about the challenges of co-parenting. The topic came up during her interview with Khloe Kardashian, and, during it, Clarkson herself revealed a lot about what she struggles with when it comes to co-parenting her children with soon-to-be ex-husband, Brandon Blackstock.
According to Clarkson, co-parenting is definitely “tough,” but keeping the “focus on” the kids makes it much more doable.
"You speak about co-parenting, and I'm doing that right now too," Clarkson said on her show. "It's tough... I know with me and Brandon, it's just a difficult thing because we're in different places, and it's like, we both agree on the main things, but it's hard thing when you're not together all the time, for me personally."
She continued, "As long as you make sure it's about the children and their best interests, then we're both on board."
Throughout their divorce, Kelly has definitely emphasized how important it was for her to prioritize their kids' interests.
In October, she told Entertainment Tonight, "There’s a lot of hearts involved here, and you know, that’s the thing that’s been kind of hard to navigate is I am an open book, but at some point, I’m a mama bear more than I am a person in the public eye. So I care one hundred percent more about my children than I do anything else on this planet."
"So that’s been the hard thing of, like, yes, I’m willing to share my experience, and yes, it is the worst. I mean, the past few months have been horribly sad. But at the same time, I have to think, Hmm, like, what I say has a domino effect in other people’s lives," she continued.
With her children in mind, Clarkson has kept all of her comments about her husband cordial.
In November, when she also spoke about growing apart from Brandon, she seemed willing to give him the benefit of the doubt: "People could be bad for you in a certain time, and I think that everybody just goes, 'Oh, well that means they're bad.' Well it doesn't necessarily mean that, it just means that you're on different paths. And I think that that's okay. Everybody's on a different learning curve, and everybody's learning something different at different times."
