Overview

• Speaking to Entertainment Tonight on September 14, McEntire said the four siblings are doing well, spending time together and leaning on each other.
• Blackstock died at 48 on August 7 after more than three years battling cancer, identified in reports as melanoma, according to statements from his family and subsequent coverage.
• He was father to Savannah, 23, and Seth, 18, with Melissa Ashworth, and River, 11, and Remington, 9, with ex-wife Kelly Clarkson.
• Clarkson has not issued a direct public statement on his death after postponing August Las Vegas residency dates to be present for her children.
• A private celebration of life was held in Montana in August, and McEntire previously shared a tribute calling him her “stepson/oldest son.”