{"id":228002,"date":"2026-03-12T07:13:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T07:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/kelly-clarkson-reveals-she-did-not-receive-the-prizes-promised-by-american-idol\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T07:13:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T07:13:18","slug":"kelly-clarkson-reveals-she-did-not-receive-the-prizes-promised-by-american-idol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/kelly-clarkson-reveals-she-did-not-receive-the-prizes-promised-by-american-idol\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelly Clarkson reveals she did not receive the prizes promised by American Idol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/l.lj-toys.com\/?auth_token=sessionless%3A1773306000%3Aembedcontent%3A3616053%262180150%26%26%26youtube%26PSscIc77jcQ%3Ad862e3be7ba83a43e19f1e2d4e184acfea3ea062&amp;source=youtube&amp;vid=PSscIc77jcQ&amp;moduleid=2180150&amp;preview=&amp;journalid=3616053&amp;noads=\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" class=\"lj_embedcontent\" allowfullscreen=\"\" name=\"embed_3616053_2180150\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While interviewing Love Island\/The Traitors contestant Rob Rausch, Kelly Clarkson revealed that she did not actually receive two of the prizes that were supposed to go to her as the inaugural winner of American Idol. <\/p>\n<p>She said: &#8220;They were like, &#8216;Oh you win a million dollars or whatever.&#8217; No, you didn&#8217;t. They lied. You did not, no. It was like a million dollars worth of investment in you. And then they said you get a car. And I needed it cause my car was bashed in and I couldn&#8217;t afford the deductible and then no, I did not get a car.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>To add insult to injury, she found out that the season 2 runner up Clay Aiken and his mother were both given cars by American Idol. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PSscIc77jcQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">source<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/132051667.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While interviewing Love Island\/The Traitors contestant Rob Rausch, Kelly Clarkson revealed that she did not actually receive two of the prizes that were supposed to go to her as the inaugural winner of American Idol. She said: &#8220;They were like, &#8216;Oh you win a million dollars or whatever.&#8217; No, you didn&#8217;t. They lied. You did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":228003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-228002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}