Kelly Clarkson on Being an Honest and Open Person: ‘Sometimes a Turd Is a Turd — You Can’t Polish It’
Kelly Clarkson enjoys being open and honest with her audience.
In an interview on We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle on Tuesday, as Clarkson geared up for the release of her new studio album chemistry, she shared what she had learnt from suffering through tragedy and divorce.
“To not only be honest about those that are around me… but to be honest with myself,” the singer, 41, told the host of what she learned. “By no means do I think I’ve ever been a liar — I just think we mold things and shape them to justify them, instead of just being truly honest about what’s really happening because you don’t want it to be that way.”
Kelly Clarkson on Being Honest with her fans
She went on, “Be honest about… ‘I don’t really want that, that’s not for me.’ And being OK and comfortable enough, coming back to not having transactional relationships and that fear of losing something if you’re honest with them. Because you’re going to lose them anyway.”
The presenter continued by praising Clarkson for embodying “truth” via her transparency and honesty.
In response to being genuinely flattered, the “Stronger” singer said, “I guess at a certain point we just grow weary of trying to make things sparkle. Sometimes a turd is a turd and you can’t polish it. Sometimes it’s what it is. It’s OK.”
After nearly seven years of marriage, Clarkson filed for divorce from ex-husband Brandon Blackstock in 2020. The divorce was granted two years later. The pair shares son Remington “Remy” Alexander, 7, and daughter River Rose, 8½.
In a May interview with Nancy O’Dell on TalkShopLive, she explained why she chose the album’s title, chemistry, which was greatly influenced by her divorce.
“I never really connected before my ex-husband. And I never connected with anybody like that. I’d never felt that. That kind of chemical … that level of just chemical reaction, I just never felt that and I remembered the first time we even met, I was like, ‘Woah.’ I just felt something.”
The mother of two continued by disclosing the ups and downs of chemistry, saying, “And then it may go really terribly, chemistry. You know, you can have incredible chemistry with someone you really shouldn’t be with. Not that one individual is inherently good or wicked. It’s just not a healthy environment.”
“I just feel like chemistry is a beautiful and amazing thing, but it’s powerful for the good and the bad. Makes you do stupid stuff.”
She previously released songs “me,” “mine,” “favorite kind of high” and “i hate love.”
On June 23, Clarkson will release Chemistry.
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