Kelly has lengthy been open about how she had no concept that American Idol would utterly change her life after she first signed on, admitting again in 2021 that she — and the opposite Season 1 contestants — thought the present was a joke.
However now, Kelly has opened up a little bit extra about her time on American Idol, revealing that she didn’t even understand she was on a TV present till her third audition.
Sitting down on Kylie Kelce’s Not Gonna Lie podcast this week, Kelly was requested about all of the hype round her iconic time on American Idol. She replied, “For me, it’s totally different. For all of us in that first season, we actually didn’t — I didn’t even realize it was a TV present till my third audition…We have been actually making an attempt to pay our payments, y’all.”
“We have been actually children, like 19 years outdated, making an attempt to pay my electrical invoice,” she mentioned earlier than including, “I do not have a look at it how all people perceives it.”
Kelly went on to debate how ending up as a choose on The Voice was nice for her, on condition that she knew precisely what contestants wanted, having been in that place herself.
“I had nobody,” she mentioned as she recalled her time after American Idol. “I used to be the primary winner, proper, so it was exhausting. To not sound, like, no matter, but it surely was actually exhausting.”
“Individuals have been actually merciless at first. They didn’t prefer it; it took the business type of by storm,” she later defined. “It was a really unlikeable factor within the business.”
Kelly then revealed that a few of these critics truly ended up on The Voice. “Those that have been actually imply have been coaches. You understand what I’m saying? Like, hated expertise exhibits, and ended up being on The Voice.”
I ponder who she’s speaking about…LMK what you assume within the feedback. In the meantime, you possibly can take heed to the complete podcast episode right here.