The X Factor Gossip: Stacy Francis Rant, Questions Judges Backstage, Calls Out Melanie Amaro

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After a lackluster episode of The X Factor, contestant Stacy Francis shot back at the judges after receiving perhaps the worst criticism of the evening.

Backstage, the singer said that she felt “she got ripped apart like she did the worst job in the world.”

She continued by telling E! Online that:

“I got beat up tonight. I felt like it was really unfair. I didn’t feel like it was a fair evaluation. I’m not one to toot my horn. I’m very hard on myself as an artist, but I was later told that I was not off-pitch at all and Paula [Abdul] said I was flat. That wasn’t true. Simon said I sounded like a cabaret singer and yet the same thing that I do when I first got here, that he loved in my first audition, now he’s beating me up.”

Shockingly, she still wasn’t done, and questioned why Simon Cowell called her out and not his own contestant, Melanie Amaro.

“I don’t know if it’s because I’m not in his category….because Melanie came on and did an R.E.M. ballad and I did a Meat Loaf ballad, and she got a rave review. I don’t get it,” Francis ponders. It’s very hard as an artist to separate we’re on a television show and this is for ratings or drama. You want to know the truth what they’re saying in there. Is this really how they feel or is [Simon] trying to win the competition so much that he’s going to throw me under the bus?”

To read the entire report, check out E! Online

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