Kelly Clarkson Doubles Down on Brooklyn Store Feud: ‘You’re Also a Liar’

The singer closed with a parting shot: “Your store is really cool. Unfortunately, you aren’t.”.

A disputa de Kelly Clarkson com uma loja de Brooklyn se intensificou, com a cantora agora acusando a loja de mentir depois que ela contestou a história de um desdém no estilo Pretty Woman.

Clarkson initially called out the specialty store Art of Play over the weekend in a post shared to X, saying staff had treated her as though she couldn’t afford its merchandise and comparing the experience to the 1990 Julia Roberts film.

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She also rejected any suggestion she was punching down at a small business, noting she had been shopping at one when the alleged slight occurred. “You don’t get a free pass to treat people less than in your store just because you are a small business,” she wrote.

In its Sunday statement, Art of Play had struck a more conciliatory tone, allowing that the “negative experience Kelly described … would resonate with anyone who has ever felt judged in a shop” and emphasizing that all visitors are “equally welcome.”.

A loja também disse que foi sobrecarregada pela resposta ao post de Clarkson, escrevendo que foi “suddenly attacked by 8 million people who have never visited our store”, e encerrou com uma referência ao próprio catálogo da cantora: “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” — uma frase do seu sucesso de 2012 “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You).”.

The exchange comes during a transitional stretch for Clarkson. In August, she aired the series finale of her Daytime Emmy-winning program The Kelly Clarkson Show after seven seasons, saying she wanted to “prioritize my kids.” She has since returned to NBC’s The Voice for its 30th season alongside Adam Levine, Queen Latifah and Riley Green.

One of the most successful artists to emerge from reality television — she won the first season of American Idol in 2002 — Clarkson has topped the Billboard Hot 100 with “A Moment Like This” and “My Life Would Suck Without You” and launched eight consecutive top-five albums on the Billboard 200, most recently 2023’s Chemistry, which debuted at No.

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