Inside their shocking split
Kelly Clarkson was smitten the first time she laid eyes on Brandon Blackstock. Backstage at rehearsals for the 2006 Academy of Country Music Awards, the newly single singer was commiserating with a girlfriend about needing to date a “Wranglers” instead of a “skinny jeans” type of guy when the music manager walked into the room. “I’m like, ‘Like that guy!’ Superhot, just normal and funny,” Clarkson recalled to WHO’s sister magazine People in 2013. “In my head I’m like, ‘Oh my God, we are totally getting married’.”
Seven years later Clarkson’s prophecy came true when she eloped with Blackstock in
