After wiping the tears from her face, the "American Idol" alum cracked a joke to her fans about the magic of "compartmentalization."

Here is everything Kelly Clarkson has said about ex-husband, Brandon Blackstock. The talent manager and former stepson of Reba McEntire died on Thursday, August 7 from cancer at the age of 48.

‘Brandon Blackstock passed away peacefully at his home in Butte, Montana on August 7th under hospice care surrounded by his family,’ Silver Bow County Coroner Dan Hollis said, confirming that Blackstock’s cause of death was melanoma, a form of skin cancer and that the manner of death was natural causes.