{"id":535708,"date":"2010-04-20T17:28:44","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T21:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=101462"},"modified":"2010-04-20T17:28:44","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T21:28:44","slug":"crystal-bowersox-%e2%80%9cbetrayed%e2%80%9d-by-ryan-seacrest-says-katelyn-epperly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/535708","title":{"rendered":"Crystal Bowersox \u201cBetrayed\u201d By Ryan Seacrest, Says Katelyn Epperly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>American Idol<\/em> star Crystal Bowersox wasn\u2019t happy Ryan Seacrest shared a tale of how he coaxed the homesick frontrunner back to the show after she threatened to quit earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/INFphoto_1210591-500x741.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Ryan Seacrest\" width=\"240\" height=\"340\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-95663\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Crystal-Bowersox-Illness-Shuffles-American-Idol-Schedule.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Crystal Bowersox Illness Shuffles American Idol Schedule\" width=\"240\" height=\"340\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-95171\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-101462\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>On Friday, TMZ.com published a report claiming Crystal nearly quit the show two weeks ago after succumbing to lonesomeness for her young son back home in Ohio. The scoop claimed Ryan convinced Bowersox to stay in Los Angeles after a parking lot confessional between the two. Ryan went on to confirm the report to E! Online and was branded <em>\u201c\u2018Idol\u2019s\u2019 Very Own Superman,\u201d<\/em> &#8212; much to Crystal&#8217;s chagrin.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe greatest thing I ever did was make enough money so I could buy my mom a house. You can buy your mom a house,&#8221;<\/em> Ryan said, consoling the aspiring soul star.<\/p>\n<p>Katelyn Epperly, the curly-haired contender who was cut from the show earlier this season, told Des Moines\u2019 Star 102.5 FM that she&#8217;s been keeping in touch with her dredlocked pal via text message and spilled the beans on Bowersox&#8217;s displeasure with the <em>Idol<\/em> host.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI had not heard about that, of course, and I texted her the second that I heard something about it\u2026 And I was like, \u2018Hey dude, what\u2019s going on? Are you OK?\u2019 And she was like, \u2018Oh, yes, I\u2019m fine.\u2019 She said, \u2018Betrayed by Seacrest,\u2019\u201d<\/em> Katelyn explained.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cShe apparently had a moment backstage where she was just missing her kid,\u201d<\/em> Katelyn continued.<em> \u201cShe just really wanted to see her little boy and sometimes it really gets to her. And I think she probably just had a moment and they probably made it to be something that it wasn\u2019t. She\u2019s fine. 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On Friday, TMZ.com published a report claiming Crystal nearly quit the show two weeks ago after succumbing to lonesomeness for her young son back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}