She won’t forget “A Moment Like This.”
Kelly Clarkson claims her ex-husband, Brandon Blackstock, once told her she wasn’t “sexy” enough to be a coach on “The Voice.”
The “American Idol” alum, 41, said in court documents obtained by The Post Tuesday that she told the talent manager, 47, for years that she wanted to star on the NBC singing competition show, but he informed her that network executives were “looking for a more sex symbol type.”
Blackstock also allegedly told Clarkson that NBC wanted “someone sexy” like Rihanna over his then-wife.
The “Kelly Clarkson Show” host made the bombshell claim last year to a California labor commissioner, who ultimately ordered Blackstock to pay Clarkson $2.6 million for unlawfully procuring deals that should have been handled by her agents.
Despite her then-husband’s purported comments, Clarkson was named a coach on “The Voice” Season 14 in 2018.
The “Since U Been Gone” singer also told the labor commissioner that Blackstock allegedly said NBC “had to have someone that was black” and that she was “too similar” to another one of his clients, Blake Shelton, who was already a coach on the series.
When Clarkson’s lawyer, Ed McPherson, asked how she was able to recall the conversation, the pop star replied, “Well, a wife doesn’t forget a time she gets told she’s not a sex symbol, so that stays.”
Blackstock apparently told NBC execs in 2017 that they should sign Clarkson for “The Voice” otherwise she would join their rival show, “American Idol.”
He claimed that year that two music agents from Creative Artists Agency had advised him to pressure NBC by telling top brass that Clarkson was already in talks with ABC about becoming a judge on the show that kick-started her career in 2002.
Blackstock allegedly blocked Clarkson’s CAA agents from joining the negotiation conversations with NBC, and she…
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