SPOILER ALERT: This text incorporates particulars of the winner of American Idol Season 22.
Katy Perry took the American Idol stage one final time as a choose earlier than saying goodbye to the ABC actuality collection competitors.
The singer, alongside Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie, walked into the Season 22 finale hand in hand. Perry was already visibly emotional when she noticed Ryan Seacrest, understanding this may be her final look on the present.
In the course of the three-hour finale, Perry took the stage with third-place finalist Jack Blocker, and so they carried out “What Makes a Girl.”
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All through the night time, the mere point out of it being Perry’s final present made the singer emotional and teary-eyed.
The women of the Prime 12 took the stage to carry out a medley of Perry’s hits in honor of her final present. “Teenage Dream,” “Darkish Horse,” and “California Gurls,” had been the songs that the women carried out.
Perry didn’t deal with the viewers on her final day as a choose on American Idol. After asserting the winner of Season 22, Abi Carter carried out “What Was I Made For?” which acquired Perry to shed some tears.
Because the confetti and credit rolled, Richie was seen giving an emotional Perry a hug, and Bryan joined afterward.
Watch the ultimate moments of Perry on American Idol within the video beneath.
Perry, Bryan, and Richie joined American Idol in 2018 when ABC revived the singing competitors after fifteen seasons on Fox. Since Season 16, the choose’s panel has remained unchanged till Perry’s departure. ABC has not introduced who will take Perry’s spot when the present returns for Season 23.
Forward of the finale, Perry was already anticipating she could be crying at something that occurred.
“I feel I can be crying at something,” Perry stated in an interview posted by KABC. ‘It’s been a stupendous journey and I like watching these youngsters develop and turning into this huge lovely patchwork quilt.”
