Kelly Clarkson Tears Up As Sterling Ok. Brown Reveals Touching Story About His Identify

Showing on The Kelly Clarkson Present on Monday to speak about his Hulu sequence Paradise, the actor opened up about his identify — after utilizing a distinct one when he was a young person.

In line with the actor, he glided by his center identify, Kelby, till he was 16. As for why he reverted again to his start identify, that clarification bought host Kelly Clarkson somewhat misty-eyed.

“My dad’s identify is Sterling Brown Jr., my grandfather is Sterling Brown Sr., I am Sterling Kelby Brown,” he started, saying he glided by Kelby for a stretch of time as a result of he “needed my very own identify and it felt like Sterling was like an previous man’s identify.”

“As a result of he handed away after I was 10, by the point I turned 16 and I hadn’t heard his identify for five, 5 1/2 years and I used to be like, I kinda simply wish to hear that identify once more,” he continued. “So I requested individuals to name me Sterling.”

Clarkson was stunned by his touching response and appeared to tear up upon listening to it. Brown additionally appeared considerably emotional, earlier than the pair laughed it off.

“That was so candy and exquisite,” Clarkson instructed him.

Through the dialog, the OG American Idol winner mentioned her son, Remington, additionally randomly determined to go by his center identify throughout a purple carpet look on the Grammys.

“My son did this at a purple carpet. He mentioned, ‘Remington Alexander,’ he selected his center identify as his final identify,” Clarkson mentioned of the 8-year-old boy, who shares his final identify together with his father and Kelly’s ex, Brandon Blackstock. “He modified his identify proper in entrance of me. I mentioned, is that this your stage identify?”

Brown beforehand opened up about shedding his father at a younger age, saying he felt like he needed to be “the person of the home” on the time and “maintain it collectively for my mother.” Brown’s father was simply 45 when he died, reportedly from a diabetes-induced coronary heart assault.

“I keep in mind, like, actually particular issues,” he mentioned of the day his father died throughout a 2019 interview on TODAY. “Waking up that morning and going into the kitchen, and my mother being on the cellphone, calling the paramedics and asking me to place garments on my dad, as a result of he was bare within the mattress and his physique was stiff.”

“He appears to be like at me over the railing and he winks, simply winks,” he added on the time. “They carry him out the door, final time I noticed him.”