Katy Perry tells rejected singer and single mom Fire Wilmore to try again at next month's 'American Idol' auditions in Nashvile. That’s when you’re going to show us where the fire is. And that’s where we're going to give you a second chance. So, I’ve got a little something for you: We’re going to in Nashville in a month. … You’ve got something there I just think it hasn’t been worked out enough. While Katy (mostly) stayed true to her word and did not give Fire a “sympathy vote” (or a Golden Ticket), she did tell Fire, “You don’t deserve three no’s. Go put it back.” And, well, that was pretty heartbreaking. There’s always light in the darkness.” But when 4-year-old Maja, who’d been playing next to the audition room’s wall display of shiny Golden Tickets, wandered over and excitedly handed her mom one of those tickets, the humiliated Fire had to tell her bluntly, “No. Katy then started pep-talking Fire, who was clearly trying to hold back her bitter tears, telling her. “It’s not fair, but that’s what life is,” shrugged Lionel. So, Lionel and Luke just couldn’t say yes to Hollywood. The judges actually tried to coach Fire to bring more fire to her performance (“I think you just need to be pushed,” Lionel said nicely), and while she took their direction well, there was still a disconnect. Maybe she just couldn’t let herself be totally vulnerable on television, after a lifetime of having to stay strong and keep her guard up for self-protection. Maybe she wanted this too much, so she crumbled under the pressure. It was unclear exactly what was holding Fire back. “There wasn’t enough fire there,” said a disappointed Katy. “Vocally, it wasn’t as good as I was hoping for.” I just wanted your voice to be more,” sighed Luke Bryan.
But that dream was dashed after Fire sang Bruno Mars’s “Talking to the Moon” and didn’t quite live up to her red-hot stage name. I need to do this for my daughter.”īefore her audition, Fire and Maja tossed coins in a fountain and wished that Idol would give Fire the big break that would help her turn their lives around. I didn’t want her to live the life I'd had in any way, shape, or form.” Fire currently works as a stripper to provide for her child - “The world’s not designed for single moms to be successful, so I did what I had to do,” she said matter-of-factly - but she told the judges that she wants “to do better. My life really sucked.”Īt age 18, Fire unexpectedly found herself “pregnant and alone,” and she explained, “I didn’t want to see struggle. “My life is kind of a crazy story, honestly,” Fire said Sunday, opening up about how she was taken away at a young age from her drug-addicted mother, placed in state custody under the Indian Child Welfare Act, and, according to her own account, was “this young little Indian girl who’d been dirty because I didn’t have parents to care of me. And that was the saddest story of all - although, in typical Idol fashion, this turned out to be a story with a cliffhanging “to be continued” twist. However, when Sunday's final contestant, 22-year-old struggling single mom Fire Wilmore, arrived with her adorable toddler daughter Maja in tow, her hard-luck tale really wasn’t enough to sway the judges. This was a dubious claim, of course, considering just how frequently the tears flow on Idol some recent confessional auditions have felt like therapy sessions, and soft-hearted judge Lionel Richie has already blown through his handkerchief budget for Season 21, with one more week of auditions still to go. Sunday on American Idol, Katy Perry declared that no one makes it out of the audition room with a Golden Ticket in hand just because of a sob story. Broken-hearted 'American Idol' contestant Fire Wilmore, after being told no by judges Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan, holds back tears as her daughter mistakenly gives her a Golden Ticket.
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