{"id":2275420,"date":"2026-02-10T07:51:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T07:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2275420"},"modified":"2026-02-10T07:51:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T07:51:29","slug":"carrie-underwood-gets-emotional-over-american-idol-contestants-original-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/carrie-underwood-gets-emotional-over-american-idol-contestants-original-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrie Underwood Gets Emotional Over \u2018American Idol\u2019 Contestant\u2019s Original Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-id=\"page-content\" data-og-area=\"article-blocks\">\n<div class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-paragraph paragraph css-50tlrn\" data-og-block-area=\"article-blocks\" data-og-block-nth=\"1\" data-og-block-type=\"core\/paragraph\" data-rawhtml=\"1\">\n<p>Country music icon Carrie Underwood is no stranger to emotional music, but during a recent episode of\u00a0<em>American Idol<\/em>, the &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WaSy8yy-mr8&amp;list=RDWaSy8yy-mr8&amp;start_radio=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Before He Cheats<\/a>\u201d singer found herself deeply moved by a contestant&#8217;s audition. What made Hannah Harper\u2019s audition memorable wasn&#8217;t just her talent, but that she sang an original song about what many mothers, even Underwood herself, can relate to: postpartum depression.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-h2 heading css-ni0l75\" data-og-block-area=\"article-blocks\" data-og-block-nth=\"1\" data-og-block-type=\"core\/heading\" data-rawhtml=\"1\" id=\"h-hannah-harper-s-story-nbsp-nbsp\">Hannah Harper&#8217;s Story\u00a0\u00a0<\/h2>\n<div class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-paragraph paragraph css-50tlrn\" data-og-block-area=\"article-blocks\" data-og-block-nth=\"2\" data-og-block-type=\"core\/paragraph\" data-rawhtml=\"1\">\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/carrie-underwood-cries-american-idol-contestant-sings-about-postpartum-depression-11899245\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Harper shared<\/a>\u00a0the story behind the song, \u201cMy youngest is 1, and shortly after he was born, I had postpartum depression, and so I was sitting on my couch \u2014 I said I wasn\u2019t\u00a0gonna\u00a0cry,&#8221; she recalled, tearing up.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-paragraph paragraph css-50tlrn\" data-og-block-area=\"article-blocks\" data-og-block-nth=\"3\" data-og-block-type=\"core\/paragraph\" data-rawhtml=\"1\">\n<p>&#8220;I was sitting on my couch wallowing, and you have boys, you know. Everybody wants to touch you, and I\u00a0didn\u2019t\u00a0want to be touched. And my youngest son, I was just having a pity party, praying that the Lord would calm my spirit, and my son kept coming up to me,&#8221; she added. &#8220;He said, \u2018Mom, open this. Open my cheese.\u2019\u00a0I\u2019m\u00a0like, \u2018Leave me alone with the doggone cheese.\u2019&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-paragraph paragraph css-50tlrn\" data-og-block-area=\"article-blocks\" data-og-block-nth=\"4\" data-og-block-type=\"core\/paragraph\" data-rawhtml=\"1\">\n<p>She continued, &#8220;And I finally opened his cheese, and when I\u00a0did\u00a0I realized God had put me in that place, and that where I was in my house was the biggest ministry that I could ever have in being a mom. So, I gathered myself, and I got up off the couch, and I quit throwing a\u00a0pity\u00a0party, and I realized that was exactly what I wanted. And I\u00a0kind of kicked\u00a0the postpartum depression in the butt, and I said, \u2018I\u00a0ain\u2019t\u00a0doing it.&#8217;\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MuiBox-root css-f4ttfq\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hannah Harper Auditions With Original Song About Her Postpartum Depression - American Idol\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eaxBn40ngWQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<figcaption class=\"MuiBox-root css-0\">Hannah Harper Auditions With Original Song About Her Postpartum Depression &#8211; American Idol<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-h2 heading css-ni0l75\" data-og-block-area=\"article-blocks\" data-og-block-nth=\"2\" data-og-block-type=\"core\/heading\" data-rawhtml=\"1\" id=\"h-moved-to-tears\">Moved to Tears\u00a0\u00a0<\/h2>\n<div class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-paragraph paragraph css-50tlrn\" data-og-block-area=\"article-blocks\" data-og-block-nth=\"5\" data-og-block-type=\"core\/paragraph\" data-rawhtml=\"1\">\n<p>After Harper\u2019s audition, Underwood, visibly emotional, said, \u201cWell, that\u2019s about the most relatable song I think I\u2019ve ever heard.&#8221; The Oklahoma native,\u00a0who\u2019s\u00a0been vocal in the past about her own difficulties as a mother, added, \u201cYou might be my favorite person\u00a0that\u2019s\u00a0walked through those doors in the past three days&#8230;\u00a0I just think you\u00a0have a beautiful simplicity\u00a0to\u00a0your voice.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-paragraph paragraph css-50tlrn\" data-og-block-area=\"article-blocks\" data-og-block-nth=\"6\" data-og-block-type=\"core\/paragraph\" data-rawhtml=\"1\">\n<p>She continued and said what every American Idol aspirant wishes to hear, \u201cI feel like\u00a0I\u2019m\u00a0gonna\u00a0be just rooting for you. I\u00a0love everything about\u00a0everything you just did.\u00a0I\u2019ll\u00a0go first,\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0a yes from me.\u201d Fellow judges Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie also voted yes.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source backstagecountry.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country music icon Carrie Underwood is no stranger to emotional music, but during a recent episode of\u00a0American Idol, the &#8220;Before He Cheats\u201d singer found herself deeply moved by a contestant&#8217;s audition. 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