While no one explicitly confirmed cheating in Brandon Blackstock and Kelly Clarkson’s relationship, there are some pretty telling claims. Let’s go back to when Blackstock was accused of cheating on his first wife, Melissa Ashworth, according to the now-defunct gossip website The Dirty (via the Daily Mail). An anonymous source claimed, “[Brandon and I] haven’t slept together, but we’ve been intimate in other ways,” which Ashworth blasted as untrue. Then, in 2013, CelebDirtyLaundry noted that The Dirty verified an account in which Blackstock stepped out on his (pregnant!) then-wife, Clarkson. According to the anonymous source, “[At an afterparty], Brandon approached a group of my friends … We all went back to his hotel room and had more drinks. My friends left but I stayed behind and yes, we had sex that night.” They continued, “I even asked him about Kelly and his reply was, ‘She ain’t gotta know. This kind of thing happens in this business all the time.'”
While Clarkson herself tweeted that the story wasn’t true, it didn’t stop the rumors. Per OK!, Blackstock was continually accused of being a serial cheater, and many speculated that he’d begun seeing Clarkson while he was still married to Ashworth. None of it sat well with Clarkson. “Kelly’s suspected Brandon of cheating on her for a long, long time. Whenever she confronted him about it, he denied it. But Kelly was never completely convinced. Her feeling was that, where there’s smoke, there’s fire,” a source told The National Enquirer (via Micky).
