No holding back! Kelly Clarkson has wasted no time in calling out her ex-husband Brandon Blackstock, and her new single 'Me' appears to directly respond to her 2015 ballad that she wrote for him.
"I don't need somebody to hold me / Don't need somebody to love me / Don't need somebody to pick these pieces up," the 40-year-old Grammy winner sings in the new song, shared on her social media pages and which you can listen to below.
"I put together my broken / Let go of the pain I've been holdin' / Don't need to need somebody / When I got me."
However, fans were quick to notice that the lyrics called back to the song 'Piece By Piece' which praised Brandon and compared him to her estranged father.
"Piece by piece, he collected me / Up off the ground where you abandoned things / Piece by piece, he filled the holes / That you burned in me at 6 years old," she sang on the song. "And you know, he never walks away / He never asks for money / He takes care of me / He loves me / Piece by piece, he restored my faith / That a man can be kind, and a father could stay."
The new song comes a week after Kelly - who is now locked in a legal battle with her former father-in-law Narvel Blackstock– made some telling lyric changes during her cover of Gayle's song 'abcdefu'.
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The change was an obvious departure from the original words, which are usually: "[Expletive] you and your mom and your sister and your job and your broke-ass car and that [expletive] you call art."
Kelly is currently engaged in a lawsuit against her former father-in-law's company Starstruck Entertainment, which managed her for over a decade.
Shortly after Kelly's divorce from Brandon, who she was married to from 2013 to 2022, Narvel's company sued her over claims she owed them $1.4 million and a further $5.4 million in future commissions.
Kelly and Brandon separated in 2020, with their divorce and ensuing legal affairs finalized in 2022, involving settlements on their family home in Montana and custody of their two kids, daughter River, eight, and son Remington, six.
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