Country star Carrie Underwood was moved to tears after American Idol contestant Hannah Harper performed an emotional original song about postpartum depression and finding strength in the Lord.
Harper, a mother of three boys, shared that she experienced postpartum depression following the birth of her youngest child. In the audition clip, she recalled a moment of complete exhaustion and despair as all her children were crying at once.
“I remember being on the couch… all I wanted was to be a mom, and I couldn’t do it,” Harper said. “I was praying that the Lord would calm my spirit. I got up off my couch, and I wrote this song.”
Her emotional performance of “String Cheese” moved the judges — Lionel Richie, Luke Bryan, and Underwood — with Underwood seen wiping away tears. The former American Idol champion called Harper’s song “about the most relatable” she had ever heard.
