News Summary

• Brandon Blackstock died at his home in Butte, Montana, on Aug. 7.
• The death certificate said that his cause of death was malignant melanoma, or a type of skin cancer.
• He had the disease for three years and he was experiencing seizures, which were “significant conditions contributing to death but not resulting in the underlying cause," People magazine reported.
• Clarkson and Blackstock were married from 2013 to 2020 and shared two children — River, 11, and Remington, 9.