Dolly Parton offered heartfelt words to her friend and fellow musician Kelly Clarkson following the death of Clarkson's ex-husband, Brandon Blackstock. During an interview with Entertainment Tonight published on Tuesday, August 12, the country music icon gave Clarkson, 43, a message that drew on insight gathered after Parton's husband, Carl Dean, passed away at the age of 82 earlier this year. "I think 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," Parton, 79, said. "Take their energy that they have given you ...