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Dolly Parton has some advice for Kelly Clarkson and Reba McEntire as they grieve the loss of Brandon Blackstock.
The country superstar, who counts Clarkson and McEntire as friends, was asked during an interview with Entertainment Tonight about what she'd say to them about Blackstock's death – Clarkson was his ex-wife and the mother of his two youngest children, while McEntire was his former stepmother.
"I think that you just have to be grateful for the years that you've had with someone, and you just try to remember the very best of all that," she said. "Take their energy that they had given you then, and you just kind of recycle that, and let that become a part of you. Just honor their memory and just know they're in a b