For today’s “Moment of Cringe,” we present to you this anecdote from inside Kelly Clarkson’s former marriage: Page Six reports that Clarkson claims her ex-husband Brandon Blackstock told her she wasn’t “sexy” enough to be a coach on The Voice. Clarkson—who won the first iteration of American Idol, which launched her 20-year career—said that she told Blackstock for years that she wanted to star on NBC’s The Voice, but he told her that network executives were “looking for a more sex symbol type.”
Rubbing salt in the wound, Blackstock also allegedly told Clarkson that NBC wanted “someone sexy” like Rihanna—and not his then-wife. Despite these loving comments said from a husband to a wife (heavy on the sarcasm), Clarkson did, in fact, land a coaching gig on the show in 2018.
