Did anyone else watch Leann Rimes on the X Factor last night? She was on there to sing a duet with teen prodigy Carly Rose. Let’s just say it wasn’t pretty. First of all Carly Rose totally out sang her. Leann seemed to realize this during the song and began upping her dramatics. She also seemed sort of out of it and wobbled around at times grabbing on to Carly to steady herself. Today several celebrity blogs are alleging she was drunk.
UPDATE BELOW!
Today she is oddly quiet on twitter. After I wrote that sentence I went to double check to see if she was tweeting and noticed that TMZ has a new story up about the incident. Leann gave TMZ this explanation:
LeAnn says she was in no way impaired, and any awkwardness was because “I was trying to help this 13-year-old girl who was having some trouble with the song.”
LeAnn believes Carly Rose Sonenclar was very nervous and had difficulty with some of the notes and she was doing her best to help her get through it.
LeAnn’s lawyer, Larry Stein, who spoke with LeAnn a few minutes ago, tells TMZ “LeAnn was not performing the way she would normally perform, because she was on stage with a young girl.” LeAnn says she does not understand why people believe she was drunk. Stein has a theory: “There have been a lot of untrue things said by others and it feeds into this sort of thing.”
One mystery remains — we found out LeAnn made a plate of food backstage and spilled it everywhere. Stein told us he didn’t know anything about that, but LeAnn insists she was stone cold sober.
Wow, everyone with ears heard Carly Rose out sing Leann on live TV. Today she wants to blame her impairment on a 13-year-old girl by saying Carly was having problems with the song? Really? And her PR person went along with this excuse? WOW.
Who do y’all think will win X Factor tonight?
UPDATE: Leann denies giving a statement to TMZ. She tweeted the following today. “”In my 18 years of performing, I have never been anything but professional onstage. It is a shame that gossip and lies are overshadowing the performance of Carly, a very talented young girl. And while I have not given any media outlet a quote, if you want one, here it is “It was an amazing opportunity to share this experience with Carly and I know I’ll be watching for her to win tonight.”
I hope Leann comes back to judge next season
Why? With all the crap she has with her, we’re Judging her already! In fact, she makes Not judging her difficult!
I just had to you tube it because I missed it last night. Not good. Poor kid being stuck with that has been. I used to love Lee Anns voice. I hope she makes a come back look at Mariah she came back better than ever.
I wonder how LR will blame this one on Brandi? Haha and how cowardly to blame this on a 13 year old… One that was having no problems with this song, or any other song she’s sang throughout the season, until Leann Rimes teetered onto the stage.
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I have just watched this episode on YouTube today. 2020, LR was definitely on another planet rather than on that stage. I really felt embarrassed watching a car crash performance but seeing a 13yr old outsinging the original singer and LR way off tune, and seemed to forget words. She would have won but for LA singing a duet.
I haven’t been watching this show, but I just watched the video clip, and I couldn’t understand a word when LeAnn was singing.
I’m thinking she missed rehearsal
That poor child would have been better performing solo. what a train wreck
Leanne is a dumbass. I was kind of shocked when I saw her performing last night, she looked out of it to me. I almost didn’t recognize her. Sorry Carlyrose out sung her. That little girl is very talented and has come into her own, no nervousness at all. She needs to stop her shit, she looked like an ass on tv last night and now trying to blame it on such a talent young lady she looks like an even bigger asshole.
must agree…the lil one held her own. lean was the one having trouble with the song
She really is a disgrace. She looked like some damn lunatic. I had to do a triple take and freeze the show to really figure out who she was. She was probably too blitzed to watch that young lady on her previous performance. NO way was she out of her element or nervous.
That was awful – she is supposed to be the professional, yet she is blaming a child?
Weirdo….
Whoa. That’s über low. Blaming it on the kid? Very, very Nashville.
Sounds typical for someone of LeAnn Slimes’s character–after-all she did steal another woman’s husband!
Whatever LeAnn needs to tell herself! Antyhoo, if her shenanigans causes my girl Carly Rose to lose this competition, there’s going to be Hell to pay!
I don’t really know anything about Leann Rimes, but I took a look at the clip and she did seem out of it. The little girl Carly was not that good either, they both had trouble with the song. But I do hope ppl are not picking on Leann just because she ran off with Brandi’s husband. Eddie is the one who cheated in Brandi and Eddie’s marriage, not Leann. Let’s face it, Brandi is probably not an easy person to live with either. Leann should only be blamed for breaking up her own marriage, not some one elses.
Leann singing with a “kermit” voice was odd. I don’t remember her singing with the back of her throat like that. Also the dirty look Carly gave her was AMAZING! I need a screen shot of that.
Why does she remind me of Brandi with her look. I like Leanne but her singing was off last night.
That was hard to watch last night. LeAnn needs to work with a vocal coach before she even attempts to sing in public again. Those pipes are rusty and corroded. Smh
Maybe she was high on laxatives and was wobbly & holding on
to keep from shitting herself…
She reminds me of Lindsay Lohan. Deny deny deny.
Play that video over and over and all you get is Leann was one hot ass nasty mess last night. She burped for pete’s sake as she was coming down the steps. Chick denied being drunk but she didn’t deny being strung out on drugs….makes you go ummmm! Watch youtube of her sound recordings versus recent live performances, this bitch is tore up…you can’t understand her most of the time. Quickly becoming a major has been unless she gets her butt in rehab and deals with her issues. Plenty of ho’s have overcome their reps, just gotta find something likable about her and so far…she isn’t giving us much to work with, IMHO
Her performance was a disaster!!!
If LR wasn’t the most hated person before this Carly Rose debacle, she is now. The comments on stories are withering, at best; not to mention, she’s been strangely quiet on Twitter…for her anyway!
I started hunting around for comments about the Leann and Carly Rose performance cuz I was in shock when I watched it. I’m so sad this happened. I thought for sure that Carly would win until this hurricane Leann came and wrecked her chances. Anyway I hope this isn’t the last we hear from Carly.
i thought leann did a spectacular job! i’d forgotten how amazing her voice is. she seemed very gracious and sweet to the girl, and she sang beautifully. i just watched the clip, so i don’t really get the fuss? mario lopez, on the other hand, annoys the piss outta me. oh wells 🙂
I hope you get help for your drug problem. Perhaps you could go in with Leann on a double rate? You seem to be on the same thing.
Ms. T, I was wondering if she saw the same performance we did..lol.
i can’t sing 🙁
Ahh, could we just take a moment and discuss whatever it was that sat & died on Britney’s head…