Kelly Clarkson was struggling to get through her residency show in the days leading up to her ex-husband Brandon Blackstock’s shocking death.
Kelly Clarkson was struggling to get through her residency show in the days leading up to her ex-husband Brandon Blackstock’s shocking death.
The singer, 43, broke down crying during her July 26 Las Vegas Studio Session residency concert while introducing fans to an updated version of her song “Piece by Piece.”
“Compartmentalization!” Clarkson said out loud while wiping away tears and attempting to get through the track in a newly resurfaced video recorded by TikTok user @modestishottest4u.
The original lyrics were about Clarkson’s estranged father and how much better a dad and partner Blackstock was.
The song was released in 2015, five years before she filed for divorce from Blackstock, who tragically died at age 48 after losing his battle to cancer last week.
“I’ve never rewritten a song more and I probably never will,” she told the audience during the show last month. “I wrote this song with a lot of hope and projection for happiness and better than what was happening. And then, well, life set in and I had to change the lyrics. Everybody was like, ‘Wait, why aren’t you singing this song?’ And I was like, ‘Have you heard the lyrics?’ That’s fun. Embarrassing.”
Clarkson reworked the lyrics in 2023 while going through her nasty divorce battle with her late ex-husband and explained why she changed them once again.
“We did it [the song] one time, I did a residency here, and then I was like, ‘You know what, that sounded a little angry,’” she said. “So I just wanted to explain how it feels now.
