At age 16, Malaya Watson is American Idol‘s second youngest finalist of all time (behind Lauren Alaina). And the Season 13 contestant — who made it to the Top 8 before being eliminated last Thursday — says she strongly considered waiting a couple of years to audition.
“My mom called me and she’s like, ‘Oh, American Idol‘s coming,'” Watson, who was 15 when she initially auditioned, tells TVGuide.com. “I was telling her, I want to wait until I’m 17 or 18 rather than jump out and do something like this. But I thought about it, and you never know when this opportunity’s going to come again, so you might as well take it and run with it. I didn’t imagine to make it this far.”
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