United Kingdom, Aug. 13 -- Dolly Parton has urged Kelly Clarkson to "remember the very best" of her time with Brandon Blackstock.

The 79-year-old music icon has offered some advice to her friends Kelly and Reba McEntire following the death of Blackstock - who was Kelly's ex-husband and Reba's stepson - and touched on her own experiences with grief after her husband Carl Thomas Dean died earlier this year aged 82.

She told Entertainment Tonight: "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. And take their energy that they had given you then and kinda just recycle that and let that become a part of you.

"Just honour their memory."

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