In an emotional clip, Sterling Ok. Brown defined why he selected to cease going by his center identify — and made tears nicely up behind Kelly Clarkson’s hazel eyes.
Within the video, posted to the YouTube web page of “The Kelly Clarkson Show,” Brown and Clarkson took an emotional journey collectively, sparked by the actor’s resolution to begin being referred to Kelby, his center identify, as a substitute of Sterling.
Through the interview, Clarkson shared that it was a sentiment she understood all too nicely, as her son, Remington Alexander Blackstock, had finished one thing just like her.
“My son did this, at a red carpet,” Clarkson she stated, including that an interviewer had requested her son his identify on the Grammys.
The “Since U Been Gone” singer revealed that her son opted to make use of his center identify as his final identify and go by “Remington Alexander,” a transfer that shocked her, because it was the primary time he had stated it out loud.
Clarkson’s response to her son? “Is this your stage name?”
The query prompted Brown to share the story behind his identify.
“I went by my middle name. I went by Kelby until I was 16 years old,” he confessed. “My dad’s name is Sterling Brown Jr., my grandfather’s Sterling Brown Sr., [and] I’m Sterling Kelby Brown.”
The “Paradise” actor defined that he needed to carve his personal identification, particularly since he thought “Sterling” was “an old man’s name.” However the dialog took a poignant flip when Brown revealed that his father had died when he was simply 10 years previous.
Brown went on to say that by the point he was 16 he hadn’t heard his father’s identify for over 5 years, and shared how he merely longed to “hear that name again.”
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This led the actor to reclaim “Sterling” as his identify, a second that moved Clarkson deeply.
“That was so sweet, and beautiful,” Clarkson emotionally shared.
