Turns out, Kelly Clarkson doesn’t need somebody under the tree.

In a brand new visualizer video for the controversy point out host’s new When Christmas Comes Round…But again album, she gave the affect to subtly color her ex Brandon Blackstock, whom she divorced in 2020 after seven years of marriage.

The video, shared to YouTube Dec. 18, entails a conventional yule log burning animation, featuring some deepest touches around the fire—alongside with stockings depicting her and her ex’s youngsters names, River, 10, and Remy, 8, to boot as one for herself emblazoned with “Mother.” As for her ex? A fourth stocking used to be hung up on the chimney with care, but merely read, “Nope.”

And whereas the gentle jab may perhaps maybe just lift eyebrows for a few of Kelly’s followers, she’s been very definite that her previous relationship used to be “limiting” for her—especially when it came to mixing romance with trade.

“I don't feel admire that’s necessarily the truth for all marriages, I exact mediate that used to be for in my case,” Kelly explained on the We Can Construct Laborious Things podcast in 2023. “For these who're on the same direction on the same time—and you're if truth be told working together, and on every day foundation communicating together and doing the work—I mediate that it may perhaps maybe perhaps maybe be magnificent.”