Dolly Parton Offers Kelly Clarkson & Reba McEntire Advice After Brandon Blackstock’s Death

Having lost her husband, Carl Thomas Dean, earlier this year, Dolly Parton is empathizing with Kelly Clarkson and Reba McEntire in the wake of Brandon Blackstock‘s death.

Parton offered her fellow singers some advice on how to deal with their grief in an interview with Entertainment Tonight posted on Tuesday, August 12. “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 shared. “And take their energy that they have given you then and kinda just recycle that and let that become a part of you. And just honor their memory and just know they’re in a better place than we are these days.”