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Kelly Clarkson<\/a> was\u00a0the first-ever\u00a0American Idol<\/a> <\/em>winner on Sept. 4, 2002, and she has gone on to have one of the most successful careers of any Idol <\/em>alum.<\/p>\n In 2018, sixteen years after she was crowned,\u00a0she\u00a0reflected on her big win in a candid interview with Entertainment Weekly<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n Clarkson admitted that she didn’t actually want<\/em> to win the reality singing competition.<\/p>\n “I do remember [runner-up] Justin [Guarini] and I having a conversation before and I was like, ‘I don’t want to win, I don’t want to win,’ because we found out we had to do a movie,” she recalled a few years back.<\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/em> Here’s Every Confirmed American Idol<\/em> Couple From Across the Years<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n “We just found that out Top 2, and he really wanted to do a movie, and I really <\/em>didn’t want to do it. I was like, ‘It’d be really super cool if I got second and you got first because the winner has to do the movie and the second one doesn’t.’ I won, so I had to do the movie.”<\/p>\n It isn’t that Clarkson isn’t a fan of movies, per se \u2014 she just would just rather watch them than star in them.<\/p>\n During an interview with the\u00a0Howard Stern Show<\/a><\/em>, Clarkson further confessed that she tried everything she could to get out of\u00a0doing 2003’s\u00a0From Justin to Kelly.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI cried so hard because I did not want to do that movie,” she said.<\/p>\n “One, it wasn’t a good movie and two, I never wanted to be an actress. I literally was in Texas, in my apartment, crying in my closet talking to him [Simon Fuller] trying to hide from my family because I felt weak.”<\/p>\n She told Stern that she was so embarrassed by the film that she showed up to the premiere drunk: “I literally ended up in a fountain soaked. I was real hammered.”<\/p>\n Clarkson later had her own talk show, the Kelly Clarkson Show<\/em>, but thankfully, that didn’t require any acting. Don’t expect more movies in her future.<\/p>\n We’ve sorted each of the show’s 24 champions in order of who is most famous to country fans. No. 1 may be predictable but a thorough scroll may trigger voting memories from seasons past, plus an update on who is still active in music today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Gallery Credit: Billy Dukes<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Gallery Credit: Billy Dukes<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Iam Tongi may have won Season 21 of American Idol, <\/em>but he was not the show’s real<\/em> winner. This list of 10 American Idol <\/em>secrets includes a look into his future, as well as a peek behind the curtain of America’s most successful reality television show.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Gallery Credit: Billy Dukes<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWhy Didn’t Kelly Clarkson Want to Win American Idol<\/em>?<\/h3>\n
Why Doesn’t Kelly Clarkson Do Any Acting?<\/h3>\n
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