During an appearance on Kylie Kelce's podcast, Kelly Clarkson gave a rare comment about co-parenting with ex-husband Brandon Blackstock while discussing double standards between working mothers and fathers.
While recording Kylie Kelce's Not Gonna Lie podcast, the singer -- who shares daughter River, 10, and son Remington "Remy", 8, with ex-husband, Brandon Blackstock -- expressed her frustration over how her kids' schools have performances during the day, resulting in her unfortunately often having to miss them.
"I'm not gonna lie. I don't know when the school systems thought it would be a good plan for families and their emotional stability to start having performances at 10 a.m. during the week," began Clarkson, 42.
"This just in, a lot of us work. And surprising you with it, like, not giving you an advance so you can at least tell you work, 'Hey, I'm going to need this morning off,'" The Kelly Clarkson Show host continued.
"A lot of jobs wouldn't let you do that anyway, but even if you're, like, the boss and you would have that control, our kids don't understand," she added. "And we just look like assholes when we're not not there."
Clarkson said her children will question her absence when she misses a performance, noting how their classmates' mothers attended the event.
"Then [the kids] go, 'Why was this mom there?' And then you have to say, 'Because that kid got a better mom,'" she joked.
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