Clarkson admits she sobbed when her sister broke the news that the miniature labradoodle had run away after being scared off by fireworks.
In a post on American Country Countdown, she writes, “I lost it (like a little girl) and started bawling when she told me. Seriously, I was so dramatic, but I don’t have children and they are my babies that I sleep with every night… I literally walked around for hours looking for him.”
The pop star assumed the worst as she searched the area with the help of two other dogs – until the pooches spotted Joplin tangled in a mess of vines.
She explains, “I can’t believe I’m admitting this but I ran through the shallow part of the pond which was knee deep yelling for him as if he were the last living thing on the planet and he was stuck in all these vines with thorns and he was half in the water and stuck and I got my knife and cut him free and carried him home. I can’t believe that happened! It is like a movie!”
