Chappell Roan has cast her mind back to a painfully awkward audition on The Voice.
The 27-year-old chart-topping star was a wide-eyed 15-year-old when she tried to land a slot on the hit American talent show, which sees A-list stars mentor music hopefuls.
But her initial audition sounds far from supportive - as she claims a producer screening potential contestants failed to acknowledge her while she sang a heartfelt rendition of Rihanna's 2012 song Stay.
Opening up to W Magazine, the Pink Pony Club singer said, "When I did The Voice audition, the producer or whoever the f**k was watching did not even look up from his phone.
"He was like, 'Okay, next.' And I went up there and sang a cappella... (It was) the scariest thing ever. He never really looked at me."
The Voice was not the only talent show Roan tried out for - as she was also rejected by the producers of America's Got Talent.
She recalled, "I was 13, and we flew to Austin, Texas, and waited in line with thousands of people at 4am. I sang True Colors, by Cyndi Lauper. Did not make it either."
Talent shows' loss was music fans' gain as Roan went on to make music herself - unleashing her number 1 album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess in 2023.
Fans may have to wait for her second record, however, as she recently told fans during a TikTok Q&A, "New album? Great question. We're so beyond... so beyond far away from that, I could not even tell you."
