Singer, songwriter, and television star Kelly Clarkson is divorcing husband Brandon Blackstock after seven years as a couple.
Clarkson filed for divorce in Los Angeles on June 4 citing "irreconcilable differences". Who is Kelly Clarkson and when did she win American Idol?
Kelly Clarkson, 38, rose to fame in 2002 after winning the first season of American Idol when she was just 20-years-old. Clarkson met her music manager and soon-to-be-ex backstage at a rehearsal for the Academy of Country Music Awards in 2006.
The pair got engaged in December 2012 and married a year later at a luxury estate in Tennessee. Over the years they were together, the native Texan was known to often gush about her former partner.