Kelly Clarkson: Red Flags, Divorce & Starting Over (Best Of)

We Can Do Hard Things

Glennon Doyle & Audacy

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this deeply personal conversation, Kelly Clarkson – beloved artist, truth teller, and goddamn cheetah – joins us to discuss: How Untamed gave her the clarity and courage to divorce; Why she stayed for as long as she did; The lowest point of her life; What broke her heart the most in her marriage; How to recover yourself after slowly disappearing in a relationship; Her incredible new album chemistry; Embracing singleness; and Why she’s a stronger parent today. About Kelly: Kelly Clarkson is one of the most popular artists of this era with total worldwide sales of more than 25 million albums and 40 million singles. Her multi-Emmy Award-winning daytime talk show, “The Kelly Clarkson Show,” has been picked up for its 5th and 6th seasons. Additionally, she was the winning coach on seasons 14, 15, 17, and 21 of “The Voice” and returned as a coach for Season 23. Kelly is the recipient of three consecutive Daytime Emmy Awards for “The Kelly Clarkson Show,” three Grammy Awards, four American Music Awards, three MTV Video Music Awards, one MTV Movie & TV Award, two Academy of Country Music Awards, two American Country Awards and one Country Music Association Award. Kelly will release her highly anticipated tenth studio album, Chemistry on June 23rd. TW: @kellyclarkson IG: @kellyclarkson To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:43.0	Welcome to We Can Do Hard Things.
0:54.1	I have a very special place in my heart for women who artfully and relentlessly tell the truth about their lives.
0:56.0	This one.
0:57.4	This one is right.
1:05.6	This one that we have with us today is as cheetah-ish as a goddamn Cheetah gets.
1:07.4	You may have heard of her.
1:09.0	Her name is Kelly Clarkson.
1:09.4	Yep.
1:10.1	Heard of her.
1:12.6	Hi, Kelly. I've never heard of her. I've never heard of her. Her name is Kelly Clarkson. Yep. He heard of her. Hi, Kelly. I've never heard of her.
1:20.4	I'm never heard of her. She's an up and comer. I'm moving to New York, so all my jewelry is packed. I should have worn my cheat necklace for you. I made one. I cannot believe that you have a cheetah necklace.
1:25.4	No, you don't understand. I know we've talked about this a little bit on my show,
1:29.0	but I cannot tell you the timing, my nanny handing me that book,
1:34.0	me reading it, the fastest I've ever read a book,
1:36.8	me getting to the part or it was like,
1:38.4	would you want your child in this relationship
1:41.2	and sobbing uncontrollably while they're both in my bed and I'm in my
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