Chicagoan Chris Medina Makes Us Cry During His "American Idol" Audition

Did you guys watch that? We're you heaving and crying huge sobs at the end of it? I was. Like ugly crying. And if you didn't, there's something wrong with you. There's probably coal-dust where your heart used to be.

So last night, Oak Forest's own Chris Medina graced the Milwaukee auditions with the heart wrenching, yet beautiful story about his fiancé Juliana, and the horrific car accident that left her with a traumatic brain injury back in 2009.

We saw his commitment to her, as he devotes his life to her care, and I was worried at first...all this beautiful stuff coming from this guy, I seriously hope it's not going to end horribly with him butchering a Lady Gaga song or something. Would "American Idol" actually do something like that to us?

Turns out, no...not even "American Idol" is that heartless, and Chris sang a beautiful rendition of "Breakeven" once he got his sea legs and found his voice a couple of measures in. By then I was just a mess. Mascara running into my mouth, snotting all over the place...oh it was bad...

Mr. Jenn walked in and he's all, "The hell is wrong with you? Aren't you watching "American Idol?"

Blubber, blubber, "Ymphnsffhyesssss."

He just shook his head and walked out.

Anyway, the judges were about as messed up as me, and you probably would have been able to tell, but Steven Tyler hasn't been able to move his face since 1998, and J.Lo can't even blink without her mouth opening. All Randy had was a slow..."Dawwwwwwwgggg"

Before they gave Chris his Hollywood pass, they had him bring Juliana in to meet them, and it was sweet. Especially Steven, Jennifer made an awkward ass of herself, but it was a very cool thing to see.

And yays, Chris made it to Hollywood, hell...Chris is going to win this thing. Let's just be clear. Gossip Gargoyle TMZ is even reporting that Chris is already pretty high up in the cuts so we're going to see a lot of him.

Back to back suburban American Idols? Why yes, yes it does seem that way.

There was another Suburban kid on there last night, from the ugly step sister of Northbrook and Glenview...the wonderful town of Wheeling. Wheeling brought us a decent singer named Haley the Red Nosed Reindeer Reinhart. She sorta looks like Early 90s Mariah Carey, and sings pretty ok, except she looks like she has diarrhea cramps when she does. So that's a bit annoying. She didn't make it last year, probably because Simon asked her why she grabs her stomach and heaves over when she sings...but good for her for making it now...

So yay, Chicagoland...way to represent last night!

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