The country music star Carrie Underwood, who is currently a judge on American Idol, is speaking out to issue a major warning about Hollywood. She also opened up about how her strong Christian faith keeps her grounded.
Underwood Sounds Off
Underwood, 43, warned that the entertainment industry is “self-serving.” Despite this, she’s found ways to maintain her authenticity.
“Faith is the thing that can keep you grounded,” Underwood told Fox News. “When you’re in the entertainment industry, there’s a lot of things that, and I’ve said this before, it’s just not real life. You can get caught up in a lot.”
“You’re kind of in a self-serving business,” she continued. “Everybody around you is there to make sure you’re good, and you’re happy, and you have everything you need, and I feel like you can start to… you can lose your roots real fast, you know. So I think faith is the only way to keep you grounded.”
Underwood’s Full Circle Career
Underwood previously won season four of American Idol back in 2005. Now that she’s a judge on the show, her career has come full circle.
“Every once in a while, I will see glimpses of myself in a hopeful, whether it’s somebody being super nervous or sometimes stylistically, just navigating this,” she said. “This is weird, let’s be honest. Being up on stage, singing in front of a whole bunch of people on TV, it’s not your everyday kind of thing.”
“So everybody’s figuring out how to navigate all of it,” Underwood added. “But I’m just glad that we get to be a part of somebody’s journey, lots of people’s journeys.”
On Monday night’s faith-based episode of American Idol, Underwood performed the worship song “How Great Thou Art.”
“I think it’s for me personally being here on our songs of faith night. It was just joyful, you know, it was happy,” she said afterwards. “It was people up there sharing their heart, and whatever that was to them, whether it was some song that, you know, touched them that was inspirational to them or whether it was something that they got to praise the Lord with, it was just a joyful, happy, lovely night.”
Underwood’s Farm Life
Underwood lives on a Tennessee farm with her former professional hockey player husband Mike Fisher and their two sons, Isaiah and Jacob. While appearing on The View last month, Underwood revealed how she keeps her life grounded with them.
“I don’t bring work home with me,” Underwood explained. “And it is the opposite of what I do everywhere else, like being on stage and being at home. These are two different people, pretty much, and I love that because it’s like they’ll come to shows, and they’ll see me do what I do, and I feel like they’re proud.”
“But mom makes dinner,” she concluded. “I’m usually covered in dirt, or I have farm animals everywhere, or I’m covered in poop or whatever it is. That’s mom, and I hope, more than anything, that’s what they take away from me and that’s what they remember about me. Like she was mom and every once in a while she goes and gets on stage.”
As she balances her career with her home life, Underwood still finds ways to keep persevering within the industry.
“I think the things that motivate me are things I get excited about and, whatever that is, you know, whether it’s singing at church or, you know, some project comes up that I’m like, I just want to be a part of that even if it doesn’t quite make sense,” Underwood recently said “It’s like being able to find those things that still get me excited.”
Underwood has long been one of the only openly Christian stars in the entertainment world. We applaud her for continuing to use her platform to spread the word of the Lord.
God bless you, Carrie Underwood!