Kelly Clarkson was the first-ever American Idol winner on Sept. 4, 2002, and she or he has gone on to have one of the profitable careers of any Idol alum.

In 2018, sixteen years after she was topped, she mirrored on her large win in a candid interview with Leisure Weekly.

Clarkson admits that she did not truly need to win the truth singing competitors.

“I do keep in mind [runner-up] Justin [Guarini] and I having a dialog earlier than and I used to be like, ‘I do not need to win, I do not need to win,’ as a result of we discovered we needed to do a film,” she recalled just a few years again.

“We simply discovered that out High 2 and he actually needed to do a film and I actually did not need to do it. I used to be like, ‘It would be actually tremendous cool if I acquired second and you bought first as a result of the winner has to do the film and the second would not.’ I gained, so I needed to do the film.”

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It is not that Clarkson is not a fan of flicks, per se — she simply would simply slightly watch them than star in them. Throughout an interview with the Howard Stern Present, Clarkson additional confessed that she tried the whole lot she might to get out of doing 2003’s From Justin to Kelly.

“I cried so exhausting as a result of I didn’t need to do this film,” she mentioned. “One, it wasn’t an excellent film and two, I by no means needed to be an actress. I actually was in Texas, in my residence, crying in my closet speaking to him [Simon Fuller] making an attempt to cover from my household as a result of I felt weak.”

She instructed Stern that she was so embarrassed of the movie that she confirmed as much as the premiere drunk: “I actually ended up in a fountain soaked. I used to be actual hammered.”

Clarkson now has her personal speak present, the Kelly Clarkson Present, however fortunately, that does not require any appearing. Do not count on extra films in her future.

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