Kelly Clarkson‘s career might have been launched by American Idol, but that’s not where it really began.
Kelly opens up about her humble beginnings in a new interview with Cosmopolitan and recalls the moment when she decided that singing would be her future. Already pursuing a career for nearly a decade, entering opera competitions for scholarship money and waitressing to make ends meet, Clarkson admitted the moment involved a stranger’s insistence that she’d one day be a big deal.
Watch it below.
15 years plus into her professional career, Clarkson states she still points to the moment as her career’s most formative inspiration. She adds things might have not gone exactly the same if the stranger hadn’t issued such a proclamation.
