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The Voice US: Kelly Clarkson moved to tears after contestant Corey Ward sings her emotional ballad Already Gone
The Voice US coach Kelly Clarkson made an emotional return to the show as she was seen in tears over a contestant’s performance of her track, Already Gone.
The star was back with her fellow coaches John Legend, Blake Shelton and Nick Jonas in time for the latest Battle Round which saw Corey Ward compete against Ryleigh.
In a brave move, Corey chose to take on Kelly’s song and it certainly paid off after Kelly was moved to tears by his gritty rendition of her track during rehearsals.
Indeed, he even gave guest judge Snoop Dogg ‘chills’ during his rehearsal performance before Kelly revealed the lyrics of her own track had more significance for her now over a decade after its release.
‘How does that feel when someone comes and sings your sing in front of you?’ Snoop Dogg as Kelly replied: ‘I love it because generally they change it up a bit but it is a little bit of added pressure.’
She continued: ‘When I wrote Already Gone, I was going through something that I thought, “It’s OK. It doesn’t always have to work out.” Hearing him sing that to me, in my life now, it’s like, are you smacking me in the face with my own message?’
Kelly brushed tears away as she added: ‘It’s interesting when you write something, and you don’t feel it ’til years later.’.
‘When you can get the songwriter to lose emotional control, that’s when you doin’ your job,’ Snoop Dogg agreed.
Kelly filed for divorce from husband Brandon Blackstock last June after seven years of marriage.
The exes share daughter River Rose, 6, and five-year-old son Remington Alexander.
Corey’s Knockout performance was just as powerful as Kelly gushed: ‘I was like, “Maybe that’s how that was supposed to sound!”.’
It came as no surprise that the star then chose Corey as the winner after he ‘killed her song’.
The Voice airs Mondays on NBC.
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