Kelly Clarkson is opening up about her life.
28.06.2023 - 18:57 / usmagazine.com
Kelly Clarkson spoke out about taking antidepressants while dealing with her divorce from Brandon Blackstock.
The “Since U Been Gone” singer, 41, recalled a difficult therapy session that made her address her mental health.
“I looked at my therapist and I just couldn’t stop sobbing, and I was like, ‘I actually had to cancel some of the other day because I couldn’t stop crying. I cannot do this,'” Clarkson shared on the Wednesday, June 28, episode of the “Las Culturistas” podcast. “And it was one of those things where I really had to put my pride aside and like all my childhood issues of whatever.”
Clarkson credited the medication for allowing her to get through the initial months after her split from Blackstock, 46. “I was on Lexapro for like, I think two months,” she shared. “My thing was, I just can’t smile anymore for America right now. I’m not happy and I need help … and it was honest to God, the greatest decision ever. I wouldn’t have made it [without it].”
The decision came after Clarkson previously swore off the idea of antidepressants. “I have been so against it. Just from things I saw in my childhood. I was so against any kind of foreign medication. I was like, ‘No, there’s got to be a better way of talking to someone and figuring this out. I don’t want to numb myself,'” she explained. “Then when my divorce was happening — I feel like it lasted forever — I [talked to my therapist about it].”
The former couple tied the knot in 2013 after one year of dating. They went on to expand their family with kids River Rose, 8, and Remington Alexander, 7, before calling it quits following nearly seven years of marriage in 2020. (Blackstock, for his part, also shares two older children from his previous marriage to Melissa
Kelly Clarkson is opening up about her life.
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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.
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