Kelly Clarkson reveals she never got the car ‘American Idol’ promised to the winner and didn’t get the $1 million prize in cash:
“I literally was on the show, and they were like, ‘Oh, you win a million dollars’ or whatever. No, you didn’t. It was, like, a million dollars worth of investment in you. And then they said you get a car, and I needed it ‘cause my car was bashed in, and I couldn’t afford the deductible!”