Kelly Clarkson Reveals There Is One Song That ‘Almost Killed’ Her

Kelly Clarkson, 42, received her begin after she received the primary season of “American Idol.” Ever since, she has launched a number of hit songs, together with “Since You Been Gone,” “Behind These Hazel Eyes,” and “Due to You.”

Whereas she has had a profitable profession, there’s one music that Kelly Clarkson says “virtually killed” her, and it is not even one in every of her personal.

Kelly Clarkson rose to fame because the winner of the primary “American Idol” season in 2002. She went on to launch her first album, “Grateful,” which included hits like “A Second Like This” and “Miss Unbiased.”

Her second album, “Breakaway,” received two Grammy Awards and bought over 12 million copies worldwide. The 2004 album included hits like “Since U Been Gone,” “Behind These Hazel Eyes,” and “Due to You.”

She has since launched a number of extra albums and even snagged one of many iconic crimson chairs as she turned a choose on NBC’s “The Voice.” The artist now hosts her personal present, “The Kelly Clarkson Present.”

On Thursday’s episode of “The Kelly Clarkson Present,” the “Behind These Hazel Eyes” artist revealed that one in every of Jon Bon Jovi’s hit songs “virtually killed [her].”

To have a good time 40 years of Bon Jovi, she deliberate to sing “Blaze of Glory,” however she “virtually dies” attempting.

“Not even ‘trigger I am unable to sing it. I simply cannot learn, no matter,” she mentioned in a blooper clip shared to her YouTube web page. “I grew up on that music. I do know that music, however in my rehearsal, I messed it up like a gazillion instances.”

She added, “Not even ‘trigger I wasn’t hitting the notes. I simply could not learn. I simply saved saying the improper phrases. It received so ridiculous I needed to let it go like Elsa only for a minute, after which I had somebody come rescue me.”

Kelly Clarkson disclosed that after profitable “American Idol,” celebrities initially handled her poorly attributable to her affiliation with the present.

“The whole lot was occurring in a whirlwind, and folks have been actually imply to us as a result of we’re from a expertise present, and it was the primary season,” she admitted throughout a January 2021 episode of her discuss present, per US Magazine. “Everybody was so impolite to us, like, on the [red] carpet, at [an awards] present … it was a horrible expertise.”

She beforehand spoke on the struggles of Hollywood in 2019, telling US Weekly, “The primary three years of my profession was me simply paying for profitable a expertise present. I received actual bitter. I used to be simply searching for anybody to speak to who knew what I used to be going by means of.”

Kelly Clarkson discovered love with Brandon Blackstock, whom she wed in 2013. The couple shared a daughter, River, and a son, Remington.

“I’m a really open particular person, however I’m not going to have the ability to be actually open about this in sure facets as a result of there’s youngsters concerned,” she instructed the Los Angeles Times in September 2020. “I believe that I’ll navigate a approach wherein to be open and sincere about it will definitely, most likely through [‘The Kelly Clarkson Show’], and it’ll most likely, I’m assuming, occur organically when somebody says one thing in dialog or one thing.”

“It positively wouldn’t be deliberate,” she continued. “There are a whole lot of little hearts concerned on this and whereas folks really feel, ‘Oh, my gosh, what a loss,’ think about how it’s within the epicenter of the storm. It’s so much to course of and take care of, simply as a household. So as a result of it’s not simply me, I most likely received’t go too deep with it.”

Moreover, Clarkson mentioned she “[hasn’t] even considered” leaping again into the courting pool.

“Not that I am in opposition to it. I am not like bitter or, ‘Oh, I am nonetheless damaged.’ I am not mad in any respect. I am very pleased. I am in an ideal place,” she instructed E! News in July 2023. “However , I’ve misplaced a little bit of me, like in my earlier relationship and I like having her again.”