Jill Biden tells Kelly Clarkson divorce ‘gets better’ and if she hadn’t split from her ex she ‘never would’ve met Joe’
JILL Biden offered Kelly Clarkson encouraging advice telling her divorce “gets better,” and said if she hadn’t split from her ex she “never would’ve met Joe”.
The First Lady gives her advice to Clarkson on Thursday’s upcoming episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show.
“This is what I would say to you if I were your mother,” Jill said.
“My mother always said to me, ‘Things are going to look better tomorrow,’ and if you can take one day at a time, and things will get better.”
Clarkson, 38, filed for divorce from her husband, Brandon Blackstock, last June after nearly seven years together.
The Voice judge cited “irreconcilable differences” as the reason behind their split.
“You know, I look back on it now and I think, you know if I hadn’t gotten divorced, I never would’ve met Joe [Biden],” Jill told Clarkson.
“I wouldn’t have the beautiful family I have now.”
Clarkson married Blackstock in 2013, and have two children together: daughter River Rose, 5, and son Remington Alexander, 4.
Clarkson requested and won custody of their two children, and asked the court not to award Blackstock any spousal support.
The wealthy superstar also requested the court enforce a prenup signed on October 15, 2013, and restore her maiden name, Kelly Clarkson, from her current legal name, Kelly Blackstock.
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.
Jill herself was married to her first husband, Bill Stevenson, in 1970 and divorced him five years later.
The year she got divorced, she met Joe Biden on a blind date set up by her brother.
Jill and Biden have been married since 1977 and have a daughter together, Ashley.
Last year, Stevenson spoke to the Daily Mail and claimed Jill and Biden had an affair while he and Jill were still married.
Stevenson told the Mail that he suspected Biden and Jill were having an affair in 1974, after he asked Jill to go to Northern New Jersey with him to meet with Bruce Springsteen and she said no.
“She had things to do, she had to look after Joe’s kids, Beau and Hunter,” Stevenson said. “It was kind of a big deal to go meet Springsteen. I had no idea she and Joe were that kind of friendly.”
“Then one of her best friends told me she thought Joe and Jill were getting a little too close,” he added. “I was surprised that she came to me.”
Two months later, Stevenson allegedly got confirmation of the affair after a man told him Jill and Joe had been driving together.
Stevenson claims he asked Jill to leave their house, which she did, even though her father allegedly begged Stevenson to take her back.
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“I considered Joe a friend,” Stevenson said. “I’m not surprised he fell in love with Jill. Everyone who meets Jill falls in love with her immediately. It’s hard not to.”
At the time, a spokesperson for Jill told The Sun that the breakdown of her first marriage was a very painful time in her life.
“It’s a shame that after 45 years, all of a sudden, this is being revisited,” they said.