“I will always remember this one time, I used to be singing for this file exec and I see, out of the nook of my eye, him writing down ‘no,'” she continued. “I used to be about to interrupt into tears proper there, so I simply closed my eyes and stored on going and completed the audition. Seems, what that be aware mentioned was ‘now,’ signal her now.”

“What a distinction one letter could make,” Pearl concluded. “And, even in spite of everything these years, I feel individuals nonetheless do not know what I am able to—till now. Being right here, I have been in a position to come out of my shell and present my vary.”

After a rousing efficiency of KT Tunstall‘s “Black Horse and the Cherry Tree,” Pearl was topped as the winner, beating out Boogie Woogie, who was singer Andy Grammer, Coral, who was Zombies actress Meg Donnelly, and Mad Scientist, who was unmasked as former Florida Georgia Line band member Brian Kelley.

So, who was the celeb behind the bejeweled costume? Solely Robin Thicke accurately guessed it was nation star Gretchen Wilson.