Last June, Archuleta tore down that wall with an Instagram post in which he came out as being a member of the LGBTQIA+ community. “If anything, I was putting a wall between me and everyone else.” “I think I was just in protection mode the whole time,” he says. But it’s still a process because I still don’t understand why people were so into it.” Now 30, the singer breaks into a nervous laugh familiar to anyone who watched him on “Idol.” “Like, 13 years later, I’m piecing together what actually was going on. “I felt so disconnected from everything,” he says now, perched on his publicist’s couch on a scorching Los Angeles day in October. Fundamentally, Archuleta didn’t know that he wanted any of this at all. He desperately missed his family back home in Utah. He hated being pitted against other singers. He was overwhelmed by the unrelenting schedule. He didn’t understand, either, why older male fans kept yelling at him to come out already, or why his own father would tell him about online speculation about his sexuality like it was hot gossip. He didn’t understand why those girls were screaming, let alone why tens of millions of people would vote for him week after week - ultimately catapulting Archuleta to the finale, where he would finish second to David Cook. Instead, one thought kept drumming through his head: “I don’t want to be here anymore.” In that moment, with his father, Jeff, beaming from his seat just feet away, Archuleta knew he should be nothing but grateful for the praise. Randy Jackson told Archuleta he was “born to do exactly what you’re doing.” Paula Abdul gushed that he was “destined for superstardom.” And Simon Cowell proclaimed, “Right now, you’re the one to beat.” 28, 2008, episode with John Lennon’s “Imagine.” The performance - a master class in immaculate pop vocal precision - earned the then-17-year-old wild screams from the tween and teen girls in the studio audience and instant raves from the judges. It was round two of the semifinals on Season 7 of “American Idol,” and David Archuleta had just closed the Feb. But I skipped in 2019, then Covid conveniently intervened in 2020-2021. I had gone to the dermatologist because of the family history and never had an issue. Who even says something like that to a patient? And the Irish side of the family of course has basal cells galore. And he alerted me to a few other areas of concern that he charted but confirmed were not "something that would rise to melanoma today". I went to the dermatologist yesterday, and he froze off a "pre-cancerous area of concern" on my face. My siblings and I have had regular colonoscopies with corresponding polyp issues of varying degrees of concerns before we were 40.Īnother 50'ish % of my background is Irish (again, according to the DNA and family history).
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"She died WITH colon cancer, but she didn't die OF colon cancer" is a nice ending as far as that side of the family is concerned.
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That side of the family has colon/gastrointestinal issues galore. My ethnicity is about 50% German'ish according to those DNA tests (and family history).