Kelly Clarkson plans her perfect first Valentine’s Day date with herself since separation

She’s currently embroiled in a divorce from her estranged husband and father of her two children.

But Kelly Clarkson chose to concentrate on the positive on Friday, when she hosted a Valentine’s Day themed episode of her talk show geared towards celebrating single women.

The Miss Independent songstress, 38, welcomed comedian Kym Whitley in the studio, along with Roseanne star Sarah Chalke via video.

During the episode, the topic of the perfect date with oneself for Valentine’s Day came up, and each star shared their ideas along with some audience members.

‘We all know that we don’t need someone by our sides to live our best lives,’ Clarkson said. 

‘To date myself, I’m a mom of little tiny tots, so I love, literally, having a glass of wine, put the fireplace on in my bedroom,’ she also shared.

Then she added, ‘…and I read a book or I watch some Netflix. Or I literally just hang out with my girls. I love that.’

Chalke, meanwhile, reflected on how much she loves hanging out with her girlfriends, something she misses during the pandemic.

And Whitley hammed it up, describing how her ideal date night with herself involved sending her young son away so she could get out her ‘toys’ and cuddle up under a throw in front of the TV.

Later in the show, Kelly was asked by an audience member, ‘What’s something that you pretended to be cool with that you weren’t cool with while in a relationship?’

‘Oh…,’ the American Idol champion said, before hesitating and looking to her guests to go first. 

But she later shared: ‘I dated this guy, and I think because I’m a singer-songwriter, if you date people, they feel like, “Oh, I’m gonna write her a song.”

‘And… don’t,’ Clarkson concluded, tellingly. 

Kelly is in the midst of divorce proceedings with her estranged husband Brandon Blackstock, with whom she shares daughter River Rose, six, and son Remington Alexander, four. 

She filed for divorce from the talent manager on June 4th of last year. 

On a previous episode of the Kelly Clarkson Show, the Grammy winner allowed that co-parenting with Blackstock has been ‘tough.’

‘It’s tough…I know with me and Brandon, it’s just a difficult thing because we’re in different places, and it’s like, we both agree on the main things, but it’s a hard thing when you’re not together all the time, for me personally,’ she recently told guest Khloe Kardashian.