Kelly Clarksontakes knowing how to grin and bear it to a whole new level!
At the Billboard Awards, “I just didn’t want to leave people hanging,” she says of how she managed to belt out numerous hits with a smile throughout the live show on May 1.
Kelly Clarkson on the Billboard Music Awards in May.Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP/Shutterstock
After undergoing emergency surgery right after the show, Clarkson healed quickly and was back onscreen just a week later, filming live shows forThe Voice. But the superstar singer reveals pain struck again as the cameras rolled.
“Blake [Shelton]was talking to me and all of the sudden, everything he said just went away and I had to grab his arm and I was like, ‘Something is wrong.'”
And that something, she later learned, was a cyst bursting on her ovary. “That was more painful than the appendicitis,” she says. “It was literally a week after my surgery so I was freaking out!”
Kelly Clarkson on the cover of PEOPLE.Jim Wright
After another trip to a busy E.R. (“I was like, ‘Anyone a fan? can someone help me get a hospital room?’”) Clarkson now says all is well. But the random back-to-back health scares did throw her for a loop.
“I was hysterically laughing and crying at one point in the E.R. like ‘What is happening?’” she says. Thankfully, “I’m great now. I’m totally great now.”
For more onKelly Clarkson’s journey fromAmerican Idolwinner to the new face of daytime, pick up this week’s issue ofPEOPLE, on newsstands Friday.
TheKelly ClarksonShowpremieres Monday, Sept. 9 in syndication on NBC-owned television stations. For more information visitKellyClarksonShow.com.
source: people.com
