Brandon Blackstock, Kelly Clarkson’s ex-husband, was in a “loving” relationship with Brittney Marie Jones, her former manufacturing assistant and his govt assistant, on the time of his demise, in line with an obituary shared on-line by his household.

Blackstock died on Aug. 7 at his dwelling in Butte, Mont., after a three-year battle with melanoma, a type of pores and skin most cancers.

The obituary describes Jones as Blackstock’s “stunning and loving associate in life and enterprise.” Blackstock and Jones had “began constructing a life, constructing corporations, and dealing tirelessly to create Headwaters Livestock Public sale and what is going to dwell on as his legacy, The Valley View Rodeo in Bozeman, Montana,” per the obituary, which was posted to the Axelson Funeral & Cremation Companies web site in Butte.

It makes no point out of Clarkson, with whom he shared two youngsters: their 11-year-old daughter, River Rose, and Remy Alexander, their 9-year-old son. They had been married from 2013 to 2020, when Clarkson filed for divorce. A highly-publicized and acrimonious cut up adopted. Their divorce was finalized in 2022.

The obituary additionally doesn’t point out Blackstock’s first spouse, Melissa Ashworth, with whom he shared two youngsters: Savannah, 23, and Seth, 18. Blackstock and Ashworth had been married from 2001 to 2012. (Savannah revealed in July that she is anticipating her second little one together with her husband early subsequent yr.)

All of Blackstock’s youngsters and grandchildren are named within the obit, in addition to his mother and father, stepparents (together with his former stepmother, Reba McEntire), grandparents, siblings, stepsiblings and son-in-law.

Who’s Brittney Marie Jones?

In response to Individuals journal, Jones was Clarkson’s former manufacturing assistant.

Jones labored full-time for Clarkson in Nashville from 2016 to 2018, in line with her LinkedIn profile. Jones served as Blackstock’s govt assistant at Starstruck Leisure, the expertise company based by his father, from 2018 to 2020.

As a part of that function, Jones was “based mostly in Los Angeles to be on the set of The Kelly Clarkson Present” and helped handle Clarkson’s day-to-day schedule, in line with the LinkedIn web page.

In June 2020, the identical month Clarkson filed for divorce, she turned an govt assistant at V Bar V Cattle Co., a Montana ranch owned by Blackstock.

The day earlier than Blackstock’s demise, Clarkson revealed that she was suspending the remaining August dates of her Las Vegas residency to assist her youngsters amid Blackstock’s sickness.

“Sadly, I have to postpone the rest of the August Studio Session dates in Las Vegas,” Clarkson introduced in a publish on Instagram. “Whereas I usually hold my private life personal, this previous yr, my youngsters’s father has been in poor health and at this second, I should be absolutely current for them.”

Blackstock’s demise was introduced the following day.

“It’s with nice disappointment that we share the information that Brandon Blackstock has handed away,” a consultant for his household stated in a press release to a number of information shops. “Brandon bravely battled most cancers for greater than three years. He handed away peacefully and was surrounded by household. We thanks on your ideas and prayers and ask everybody to respect the household’s privateness throughout this very troublesome time.”