This article was originally written by Brooke White for Yahoo! Music. The following is an excerpt.
The 15th and final bittersweet season of American Idol is underway, and all season long, Yahoo Music’s Reality Rocks is inviting alumni from the series to share their stories. This week, we have Season 7 songstress Brooke White, reflecting on one of the most infamous and shocking Idol moments ever – and how she managed to rebound from her very public gaffe with dignity, grace, and most of all, humor.
To this day when a stranger stops me in Target, or when a flight attendant recognizes the sound of my voice, they almost always say the same thing: “My favorite moment is when you stopped and started over,” or “Wow, that was so brave of you,” or even “That was very professional.” Makes me laugh.
I’m grateful for their kind words, but I am not sure I can take any credit for being brave, and I definitely can’t claim it was a mark of my professionalism. It simply just happened. I think they call it a “brain fart.” And it was mortifying.
Read White’s full article at yahoo.com.
