He not only came out to the judges, but also to his father.

An American Idol contestant came out to the judges, and to his father, on an episode that aired last night, and he blew the judges away with his performance of a song about unrequited love.

After introducing his band, made up of a violinist and pianist, and doing an impersonation of Katy Perry that left her self-conscious about her singing style, he got more personal.

“I just recently came out,” he told judges Perry, Lionel Richie, and Luke Bryan. When Perry congratulated him, he thanked her for her song, “I Kissed a Girl,” which he said helped show him that stories about same-sex attraction could be mainstream. She then asked him if his dad knows he’s gay.

“No, he doesn’t know anything about me,” Jorgie answered, with his hands nervously pressed against either side of his face. “He’s going to see me. He’s going to find out about everything.”

The aspiring Idol also took a step towards revealing himself to his crush, whom he never fessed up to about his feelings because he was closeted. He wrote an original song based on the experience, called “Heaven,” and sang it for the judges.

“I wrote this song about a guy that I liked, but he didn’t know cause I wasn’t out. It was just like, ’My life would be heaven if you knew that I liked you,'” he said.

When Perry asked if the individual was still in the dark about Jorgie’s feelings for him, to which he said, “Maybe he’ll watch American Idol and he’ll know.”

While a good backstory might get you on TV during the audition phase, it isn’t enough to get you to Hollywood, and it was time for Jorgie to prove he had the talent to go to the main stage. Thankfully, he nailed it.

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“You’ve got a real emotional voice,” Perry told him after the performance.

“You just gave us serious pro,” she added.

“When I say you nailed it, I mean, to the point of in awe. I love what you just did,” Richie told him.

“You have a real chance of being your dream,” Perry assured.

All three judges gave him a yes, and a big hug.

Watch below.





