Backstage Country

LISTEN LIVE

Kelly Clarkson To Carly Pearce: ‘We Need To Talk’

As we previously reported, Carly Pearce made Kelly Clarkson cry when she performed her song “29” about her marriage and quick divorce from Michael Ray on The Voice earlier this…

Kelly Clarkson To Carly Pearce: 'We Need To Talk'
Getty Images

As we previously reported, Carly Pearce made Kelly Clarkson cry when she performed her song "29" about her marriage and quick divorce from Michael Ray on The Voice earlier this month on Carly's first performance on the NBC show.

Pearce discussed what happened off-camera in a recent interview. "Afterwards she got off-stage and walked over to me and hugged me and was just like, 'Thank you for that.' And she was like, 'We need to talk.'"

She added, "And I just... I really appreciated that and felt like she and I knew what the other one felt. And that was a powerful thing that I haven't quite been able to feel with somebody else that's experienced it in the public."

The lyrics for "29" read in part, “The year that I got married and divorced / Held on for dear life, but I still fell off the horse / From a Miss to Mrs. / Then the other way around / The year I was goin’ live it up/ Now I’m never going to live it down.”

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.