Kelly Clarkson Opens Up About Needing Help & Antidepressants Amid Divorce, Her Song That Was Actually About Suicidal Thoughts, the Song She Wasn't Sure She'd Perform Again, Moving Her Show to New York, Broadway & Which Celebrity Is Her Type

Kelly Clarkson has not yet appeared on Broadway, but she’s a major fan of the art-form and has covered many musical theatre songs throughout her career.

One of Kelly Clarkson’s biggest hits is “Since U Been Gone,” which former RCA Records head Clive Davis said in his memoir the singer didn’t want to originally record.

Kelly Clarkson is opening up about how she cared for her mental health amid her divorce from Brandon Blackstock.During an appearance on the Las Culturistas podcast, Clarkson revealed that she wouldn't have made it through the divorce without the help of antidepressants.«I am gonna be very honest right now and I have not owned this ever… I looked at my therapist and I just couldn't stop sobbing, and I was like, 'I actually had to cancel something the other day because I couldn't stop crying. I cannot do this,'» Clarkson shared.

Kelly Clarkson spoke out about taking antidepressants while dealing with her divorce from Brandon Blackstock.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Kelly Clarkson appeared on “Watch What Happens Live” and clarified the tension behind the making of her hit single “Since U Been Gone,” which still carries a “bad vibe” for her to this day. Clarkson was asked by host Andy Cohen to respond to a revelation in Clive Davis’ memoir in which the mega-producer claimed he had to force Clarkson to record “Since U Been Gone.” “Let’s give some backstory,” Clarkson said. “I was lied to, and they told me there are these producers who want to work with you and there’s this song. It had dummy lyrics. They didn’t have lyrics in. They said they wanted me to work with it. I was told to write to the song.”

Kelly Clarkson went through it!

Kelly Clarkson got a lot of help from medication.

Kelly Clarkson was able to break away from her marriage to Brandon Blackstock, but not without suffering from an enormity of feelings, all while in the spotlight. For the first time, Clarkson is admitting that she took antidepressants as she dealt with her public, messy divorce.  "I was on Lexapro for like, I think two months," she said of the popular SSRI drug. "Because I was like, look I don't want to be on it forever.

Kelly Clarkson is getting the last laugh. The three-time GRAMMY winner threw a hint of subtle shade at some unnamed celebrities she says were rude to her following her 2002 win. In an interview on Tuesday's episode of Clarkson was asked by host Andy Cohen to identify one of those stars by name. Opting to plead the fifth instead, Clarkson couldn't help but offer a little tease.«I will say, a lot of them ended up on shows like the one I'm from,» she hinted.

Kelly Clarkson unpacks her divorce from Brandon Blackstock on her new album Chemistry. In the process, she compares him to an Old Hollywood star with a tragic history.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Who wouldn’t want to sing Kelly-oke to a brand new Kelly Clarkson album? But just be prepared to go to a few darker places, as some of the deeply confessional songs on “Chemistry” come up, many of them prompted by her 2020 divorce from Brandon Blackstock and the events that led up to it. Even if she insists that she put some of the most baldly personal songs she wrote away in a drawer, what’s left is still altogether autobiographical, having been written during some of her darkest days roughly three years ago. Not that it’s entirely daunting stuff; Clarkson made sure to include some songs harking further back in her relationship, before the chemistry went sour, to cover the heat generated in the early stages of a relationship, too. She joined Variety via Zoom to discuss the full arc of what “Chemistry” covers.

Kelly Clarkson is singing about her relationship with ex Brandon Blackstock on her new album Chemistry, but did she give him a heads up that it was coming out?

Kelly Clarkson is opening up about her divorce — and possibly rebounding with Kim Kardashian‘s ex??

Kelly Clarkson has always been someone who says what is on their mind and she didn’t hold back while being interviewed for The Howard Stern Show this week.

Despite their divorce drama, Kelly Clarkson briefly spoke to ex-husband Brandon Blackstock about her new album, Chemistry.

Kelly Clarkson is opening up about an awkward encounter with Scooter Braun after her tweet about the music manager’s controversial purchase of the master recordings for the albums she recorded for the Big Machine label.

Kelly Clarkson is back with new music!

Kelly Clarkson admitted changes are already in place for the fifth season of her talk show after accusations surfaced of a "toxic" working environment.  Clarkson said she "definitely was blindsided" by a report published in May where one current and 10 ex-staffers alleged abuses from producers and other high-ranking employees. "I think the important thing is, we get into this mindset of canceling everything or everyone. And that’s not unhealthy because it’s like, ‘OK then …’ Because what you’re saying is every time somebody says something, then it’s just over," she told The Hollywood Reporter.  "And that’s not how you work on things.

Kelly Clarkson is opening up about her idea for Taylor Swift to re-record her music and how Scooter Braun reacted to her publicly sharing that idea.

Kelly Clarkson has plans to change how work is done at her talk show after some staffers said it was a «toxic» environment.In a expose published in May, one current and 10 former employees of spoke out about their time working on the NBC program.«Kelly has no clue how unhappy her staff is,» one former employee told . Among the allegations lobbied against the production, the employees told that they were overworked, underpaid, and that their mental health suffered as a result of working on the show. Now, in a new interview with, Clarkson says she was «blindsided» by the comments from the anonymous staffers. And while the claims were shocking for her, Clarkson wants to learn from this. «I think the important thing is, I think we get into this mindset of canceling everything or everyone.