Brandon Blackstock Had ‘Loving Accomplice’ After Kelly Clarkson Divorce

The expertise supervisor — who was married to Kelly Clarkson from 2013 to 2022, when their divorce was finalized — shared a life in Montana with “his stunning and loving associate in life and enterprise, Brittney Marie Jones,” reads a tribute shared Monday by Axelson Funeral & Cremation Companies.

The 2, reads the obit, “began constructing a life, constructing corporations, and dealing tirelessly to create Headwaters Livestock Public sale and what’s going to stay on as his legacy, The Valley View Rodeo in Bozeman, Montana.” The endeavors got here after Blackstock spent 20 years within the music enterprise, together with his tribute saying he later “discovered his means again to the mountains and the cowboy lifestyle he at all times wished to stay. He discovered a homestead and a love in Butte, Montana.”

The official web site for Headwaters Livestock Public sale lists Blackstock because the proprietor and Jones because the managing director. The enterprise specializes as offering “clear and protected pens, good feed, clear water, and cautious dealing with” for livestock up for public sale, “in addition to knowledgeable sorting to make sure that your livestock convey top-dollar to the producer and prime quality to the customer.”

Along with being remembered as a “cowboy” who “valued the cowboy lifestyle” and “drove an enormous truck, rode a superb horse, and eliminated his hat when he launched himself,” the obituary additionally notes that Blackstock’s “star” by no means shone “brighter” than when it got here to his “position as a father.”

“Nothing mattered to Brandon greater than his 4 stunning kids, Savannah, Seth, River, and Remy,” it reads. “To say he was devoted appears cliché. It appears like an overused phrase, however it’s the right phrase. He was a loyal father. His 4 kids had been and can at all times be his best love and his best legacy.”

The obituary would not point out Clarkson — with whom he shared youngsters River and Remington — or Blackstock’s first spouse, Melissa Ashworth, to whom he was married from 2001 to 2012 and shared Savannah and Seth.

Final week, a rep for the Blackstock household introduced that he died following a personal battle with most cancers. He was 48.

“It’s with nice unhappiness that we share the information that Brandon Blackstock has handed away,” the assertion learn. “Brandon bravely battled most cancers for greater than three years. He handed away peacefully and was surrounded by household. We thanks in your ideas and prayers and ask everybody to respect the household’s privateness throughout this very tough time.”

The information got here after Clarkson shared an announcement on Instagram, through which she mentioned she was suspending the August dates of her residency to be there for her kids as a result of Blackstock was in poor health.