Melinda Doolittle is looking back at the great advice she received from Nicole Kidman.
In a new interview, the 44-year-old singer, who came in third place on season six of American Idol, revealed the very useful advice that the 55-year-old actress once gave her.
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Melinda recalled how she met Nicole at a restaurant back in 2002 shortly after the Idol finale aired.
“Nobody was talking to her. I had a line at my table and I was like, ‘I do not understand, Nicole Kidman is right there,” Melinda recalled to Insider.
Melinda said that she spent so much of her time interacting with fans that she “couldn’t eat” and had to take her food to go because it had gotten cold.
When Melinda got up to leave, Nicole asked her to come by her table.
“She was like, ‘Hey, honey, we’re so proud of you.’” Melinda said. “‘We watched you on the show. And I just want to tell you to invest in security.’”
According to Melinda, Nicole added, “For me, people have just seen me on screen, so they don’t relate to me in that way. But for you, you’re one of them. And so they feel just fine walking up to your dinner table and not letting you eat. So you need to have someone with you, so you can eat.”
After talking to Nicole, Melinda immediately hired security for the next six months, which she says “was the best advice anyone has ever given me.”
Melinda went on to say that while filming Idol, she and the fellow contestants “had some freedom,” but that all changed when they started going out in public and they were hounded by fans and paparazzi.
“We could not go anywhere without security,” Melinda said.
She also said that she would only go out for lunch once in a while, but “the show was so big” that “you could not walk more than 10 feet without getting stopped or people wanting pictures and wanting to talk to you.”
“I don’t know how to put into words how insane it really felt,” Melinda explained. “Like just trying to go in public and realizing at some point your brain realizes, ‘Oh, this is my life.’”
Source: justjared.com