In June of last year, the singer and talk show host Kelly Clarkson shocked the world when she filed for divorce from Brandon Blackstock, who she’d been married to for seven years and had two young children with.

Now, Clarkson is getting advice on finding love again from First Lady Jill Biden, who divorced her first husband Bill Stevenson before marrying Joe Biden. Jill was married to Stevenson for five years and never had children with him. She now has her daughter Ashley with Biden, and is stepmom to his son Hunter as well as his late son Beau.

“I want to tell you, Kelly — this is what I would say to you if I were your mother — my mother always said to me, ‘Things are going to look better tomorrow. If you can take it one day at a time, things will get better,'” Jill said. “I look back on it now and I think, ‘If I hadn’t gotten divorced, I never would’ve met Joe. I wouldn’t have had the beautiful family I have now.'”

“I really think things happen for the best. I think, Kelly, over time… you heal. You’re going to be surprised. I can’t wait until that day comes for you,” she continued. “You’re going to call me up and you’re going to say, ‘Hey, Jill! You were right!'”

Back in October, Clarkson admitted to Entertainment Tonight that her divorce was “sh**ty,” and opened up about its impact on her kids.

“There’s a lot of hearts involved here… The thing that’s been kind of hard to navigate is I am an open book, but at some point, I’m a mama bear more than I am a person in the public eye,” Clarkson said at the time. “So, I care 100 percent more about my children than I do anything else on this planet.”

“So, that’s been the hard thing of, like, yes, I’m willing to share my experience and yes, it is the worst,” she added. “I mean, the past few months have been horribly sad. But at the same time, I have to think, ‘Hmmm, what I say has a domino effect in other people’s lives.'”