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Kelly Clarkson<\/strong><\/a> has written songs about the deep pain she felt<\/a> after her father left her family when she was a young girl, but the singer has been less open when it comes to her beloved mother who raised her and her two siblings<\/a>, whom she didn\u2019t get to know while growing up. Fans are curious about Kelly\u2019s family, as she rarely speaks about them in interviews.<\/p>\n Kelly\u2019s late dad Stephen Michael Clarkson left his family when the daytime talk show host was six years old. She detailed his departure in her 2015 ballad \u201cPiece by Piece<\/a>.\u201d The song included the lyrics, \u201cAnd all I remember is your back\/Walking towards the airport, leaving us all in your past.\u201d The former engineer moved to California and broke up their family, leaving Kelly with abandonment issues she\u2019s detailed in several songs.<\/p>\n Over the years, Kelly tried to reach out to her dad and form a relationship but was rejected. In a 2018 interview with the Scandinavian talk show\u00a0Skavlan,<\/em> she revealed about their strained connection, \u201cI know a lot of people go, \u2018Aww,\u2019 but it\u2019s not really that situation. I think if you don\u2019t grow up with it, it\u2019s hard to miss something you never had.\u201d<\/p>\n Kelly explained she tried so many times to reach out to her dad that it bordered on being \u201chumiliating,\u201d sharing,\u00a0\u201cYou\u2019re like, I shouldn\u2019t have to work this hard for someone\u2019s love. Like, that\u2019s a little ridiculous. And at that point, too, you grow up so much to where you go, okay, I don\u2019t even think you\u2019re capable of love.\u201d<\/p>\n During a February 2019 interview with\u00a0Forbes<\/i>, Kelly revealed when discussing \u201cPiece by Piece\u201d that her father died<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cThat song for me, personally, behind the scenes, it\u2019s evolved mostly for me. So like from the moment I wrote it, just being pregnant with my little girl and then you know all the moments that I really did try and make it work with my father and life and just get completely let down to where\u2026,\u201d she said before adding, \u201cYou know he passed away months ago. So that\u2019s why.\u201d<\/p>\n The Grammy winner is still close with mom Jeanne Taylor\u00a0<\/strong>(n\u00e9e Rose)<\/b>. After Stephen left the family and the pair divorced, Kelly was raised by her mother in Texas.<\/p>\n Jeanne appeared on Kelly\u2019s eponymous daytime talk show in September 2019, and discussed why she became a teacher. \u201cAs I was growing up, I had good teachers and I had some that were not so good teachers,\u201d she explained<\/a>. \u201cI felt so bad for \u2026 not so much for myself because I behaved, but [for] some of the kids who had a hard time sitting still and doing things. Some of those teachers were really rude and they were mean and I thought, \u2018I don\u2019t ever wanna be that way.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n She continued, \u201cI want kids to want to come to school, I want them to love learning. I want them to be a life-long learner, because I am. And I want it to be fun. I want to meet them at the door and welcome them in \u2026 I want them to love it!\u201d<\/p>\n Being an English teacher, Jeanne encouraged Kelly to write down her feelings. \u201cI kept everything in, and I bottled it, and then I blow up,\u201d the Emmy winner said in an October 2023 interview with Audacy<\/a>. \u201cThe best thing, and greatest thing, my mother ever did for me was shove paper and pen in front of me and go, \u2018If you\u2019re not gonna talk about it, you need to write about it\u2026\u2019 and that is how I became a writer.\u201d<\/p>\n Kelly\u2019s oldest sibling is brother Jason Clarkson<\/strong>, who was born in 1973. Unfortunately, they didn\u2019t grow up together, as he moved to California to live with their father.<\/p>\n The pair reconnected in 2001 at Jason\u2019s wedding.\u00a0\u201cThe year before I actually auditioned for\u00a0Idol<\/em><\/a>, my brother got married in Alaska and we all met up there and it was kind of then [that] we kept in contact,\u201d the \u201cStronger\u201d singer revealed during a\u00a0SiriusXM interview\u00a0<\/a>in August 2019. The pair are now close, and Jason even appeared in Kelly\u2019s 2006 music video for\u00a0Walk Away.<\/em><\/p>\n Like Jason, Kelly didn\u2019t grow up with sister Alyssa Clarkson, who was born in 1976. \u201cMy sister grew up with my aunt and uncle in North Carolina and my brother grew up with my dad in California and I grew up in Texas with my mom,\u201d the hitmaker explained in her 2019 interview. Visiting each other was\u00a0hard because they \u201cwere all very poor\u201d and \u201cspread out\u201d over the country.<\/p>\n Even though Kelly barely knew her brother and sister until they were adults, they had a familial bond that was unbreakable and remained close after reuniting at Jason\u2019s wedding. \u201cWe all met up and everything, and then they got really excited because [American<\/em>]\u00a0Idol<\/em> happened. Which is really weird if you saw them \u2014 we\u2019re exactly the same. It\u2019s like we grew up together, it\u2019s really weird,\u201d she revealed.<\/p>\n In 2009, Kelly revealed how all three siblings lived down the street from each other. \u201cWe have a lot of land \u2014 we all live on the same land,\u201d Kelly said, joking, \u201cMy land kind of slopes \u2014 I live up on the top part, my brother lives at the way bottom and my sister lives on the side. It\u2019s cool though!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nWho Was Kelly Clarkson\u2019s Father Stephen Clarkson?<\/h2>\n
Who Is Kelly Clarkson\u2019s Mother Jeanne Taylor?<\/h2>\n
Who Is Kelly Clarkson\u2019s Brother Jason Clarkson?<\/h2>\n
Who Is Kelly Clarkson\u2019s Sister Alyssa Clarkson?<\/h2>\n