The first time was when she realized how far away the initial audition was.
“‘Too far,’ I thought.
‘Out of the question.'”
However, her mother immediately offered to take her.
“It would be easy to say the rest is history, that it was meant to be.
But it didn’t feel like that at the time.
Every time I had to sing in front of the judges, I’d get nervous.”
Going out to Los Angeles by myself, competing with all those other people who were so talented.
I burst into tears.
My dad turned to me in the backseat.
I took a deep breath.
‘No,’ I said at last.
‘I’ll go.'"
