Kelly Clarkson is not a big fan of her first movie she did after winning American Idol and got honest about why she does not let her kids watch the musical.
The singer-songwriter, who was contractually bound to take the movie role after winning the talent show, has banned her kids from her movie debut, From Justin to Kelly, and more than two decades after its release, Kelly broke her silence, commenting, “It’s s***.”
She told the crowd during the final night of her Studio Sessions Las Vegas residency on Saturday that appearing in the film beside her fellow American Idol contestant Justin Guarini was just a “contractual obligation.”
The Kelly Clarkson show host, when she spotted a fan wearing a t-shirt inspired by the movie, quipped, “Well, it’s an Oscar-worthy number, and it’s called From Justin to Kelly.”
Kelly noted, “Two words: Contractually obligated.”
The songstress then expressed her hate by raising her middle finger for the movie.
Elsewhere, when another fan gushed over the film, Kelly responded, “It’s not, you’re watching it with loving eyes. It’s s***.”
Kelly also recalled that she had no idea during her American Idol era that winning the show would require her to do the movie.
She said, “Man, read the f****** fine print, you know.”
Kelly added, “I didn’t know that if you won, you had to do a movie. Not all of us want to be Meryl Streep, we just like watching her, OK? I was like, ‘I don’t want to be in a movie’, but they were like, ‘Yeah, but you won’. And I was like, ‘And I feel like I’m losing? It doesn’t feel quite like a win’.”
She further added that after going through the whole experience of acting she now respects the professional actors more, “I respect actors so much because that’s what they do, even after (hosting) a talk show. It’s insane, like, how much rejection they get. They keep going, and it’s just insane. It’s such a cool thing I love, it was not what I wanted to do.”
Kelly, who is mom to two kids, River Rose, 12, and Remington, 10, added, “It is funny though, like, my kids, I’ve banned them from watching.”
