The American Idol alum’s daughter started the video with a touching promise for her mom. “I love you, momma,” she said. “I hope you have a good birthday day and I love you so much. And I would sing a special song for when it’s your birthday, well, today.”
Remy, was up next to share his birthday wishes, before Blackstock’s 13-year-old son, Seth, chimed in. Blackstock rounded out the video, which was filmed outdoors in Montana, where the family has been self-quarantining. Blackstock is also dad to 18-year-old daughter Savannah, though she didn’t appear in the video.
“Just now seeing this and I am bawling! They’re all so cute!” Clarkson gushed over the video. “I’ve had a bit of a rough week and this just turned it around ?❤️???.”
Clarkson began dating Blackstock, son of her former manager Narvel Blackstock (and former stepson of Reba McEntire) in 2012.
“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,” Clarkson said of Blackstock during a show in 2017. “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,” she continued. “I was like, ‘Oh that’s that feeling… OK! That’s what they were talking about in Waiting to Exhale.’ I just got it. I just didn’t have a clue.”
Clarkson said she “felt something” when she first met Blackstock in 2006. However, he was married at the time, so she didn’t make a move. They didn’t meet again until 2012, after his divorce from Melissa Ashworth.
“We didn’t even know each other, but he had walked past me once and there was a moment in my crazy head,” she said. “He thought I hated him, too. When I finally confessed, ‘I really dig you,’ he was so shocked because he thought I hated him. I hadn’t let on that I liked him. Inside I was like, ‘Ask me out!’ but outside I was like, ‘I love being single and coming home every night alone. It’s awesome.'”
Clarkson has raved over her marriage over the years, but in a 2015 interview with Redbook, she said that Blackstock was not her “other half.”
“Brandon is not my other half. He’s a whole and I’m a whole,” she explained. “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.”
Clarkson did, however, open up about making her relationship a priority. “I always swore ours would not be a relationship where we have to schedule sex,” she quipped. “That is never going to happen. We put each other first. I call it the oxygen-mask mentality — take care of yourself first!”
