Reba McEntire is mourning the demise of her former stepson, Brandon Blackstock.
The nation celebrity left a touch upon her son Shelby's Instagram tribute to Blackstock on Monday.
“Very nicely mentioned Shelby. Sure we'll miss him a lot 💔💔🙏💔❤️❤️❤️🙏💔,” she wrote, although she has not but posted a tribute of her personal.
Shelby posted a collection of photos and a message about his half-brother final week, calling Brandon an “irreplaceable a part of our household.”
“He taught me a lot, abandoning numerous cherished recollections that I'll maintain onto ceaselessly. For each treasured second we shared, there are such a lot of extra we'll by no means get to make collectively, however I do know you'll nonetheless be there. Each hunt, each flight, and within the on a regular basis moments of life, I'll really feel your presence.”
He ended the prolonged tribute by saying the household would at all times miss him and “ever cease loving, remembering and celebrating you.”
McEntire shares Shelby along with her ex-husband and Brandon's father, TV producer Narvel Blackstock. She remained shut with Brandon even after the divorce in 2015, nonetheless referring to him as her stepson.
Brandon died after a three-year most cancers battle with melanoma, a household rep informed Web page Six on Aug 7. He was 48 years previous.
The singer, 70, refused to take sides when it got here to Brandon's divorce from Kelly Clarkson, whom McEntire can also be near.
“You understand, I really like them each. Brandon's my stepson, Kelly's my good good friend… I'm pulling for each of them,” she told Extra in a 2021 interview. “I hope they're blissful and wholesome and pull although this. I pray everybody provides them the encouragement they will as a result of they want it proper now, each of them do.”
“I really like the each of them with all my coronary heart,” she added.
She additionally told Entertainment Tonight that she beloved Brandon like he was her personal.
“Brandon's been my son ceaselessly it appears,” she informed the outlet in 2021, once more refusing to take sides in his divorce from Clarkson. “Though he's my stepson, I nonetheless love him like he's my whole — my blood, so I'm praying for ‘em each 'trigger I really like ‘em each.”
Clarkson and Brandon finally settled their divorce in 2022 after years of contentious court docket battles.
They shared two kids: River, 10, and Remington, 8.
Brandon additionally had daughter Savannah, 23, and son Seth, 18, along with his ex-wife, Melissa Ashworth.
Lower than 24 hours earlier than the tragic information of the expertise supervisor's demise, Clarkson, 43, introduced by way of social media that she was abruptly canceling her Las Vegas residency. She revealed that her ex had been “ailing.”
“Whereas I usually preserve my private life non-public, this previous yr, my kids's father has been ailing and at this second, I must be absolutely current for them,” she wrote by way of Instagram on Aug. 6.
