Kelly Clarkson Reveals Why She’s Staying Single More Than a Year After Ex Brandon Blackstock’s Death

Kelly Clarkson isn’t looking to date anytime soon, and she has a pretty understandable reason for staying single.

On the Wednesday, September 30, episode of the Las Culturistas podcast, the 44-year-old American Idol champ confirmed she’s not currently dating, over a year after her ex-husband Brandon Blackstock passed away. The former couple shared two children, River, 12, and Remington, 10.

“My kids right now, I think there’s a lot behind that, but I think that would rock their boat a little bit,” Clarkson explained. “And honestly, this is not a [expletive] answer. I love my life right now. Like, it just got to where I am not exhausted at every point of it.”

The Since U Been Gone hitmaker also acknowledged that relationships require people to “give some of your time up,” which is something she’s “unwilling” to do at the moment.

Clarkson also agreed when podcast cohost Bowen Yang noted that it was the first time she and her children were together “without this big thing looming over it, having its own presence.”

“Yeah. It’s been really good,” Clarkson added. “We’re having fun, and we’re cooking, we’re playing games. I’m there at pickup, or I’m there dropping off. I’m there.”

The Behind These Hazel Eyes songstress, who currently lives in New York City, admitted that she’s enjoying raising her kids there.

“It’s a beautiful city to raise kiddos in too, because I wasn’t really exposed to different cultures,” the singer continued. “I wasn’t really exposed to anything like that. I love where I grew up. Obviously, I turned out alright, but I just meant it’s a cool thing for them to have just every color of the rainbow, every color of personality, everything.”