He did not know who she was, only that she was a girl that needed help. We both don’t watch American Idol, but these past days have been nervewracking and it pains me even more now to know that this girl is so well-known.

I asked my boyfriend what he thought – it was no hit and run accident.

RIP Alexis, and may God give her family strength to get through this.

i hope to go and pray they find out the truth and who did this so we as her friends and family can actually grieve well enough thank you to your bf who tended to her

He did not know who she was, only that she was a girl that needed help. We both don’t watch American Idol, but these past days have been nervewracking and it pains me even more now to know that this girl is so well-known.

I asked my boyfriend what he thought – it was no hit and run accident.

RIP Alexis, and may God give her family strength to get through this.

anyway, i think the destiny for a lot of people whose dream is to sing on American Idol with go either way! either you get super lucky and end up like Kris Allen or get humiliated, waste a lot of time, and energy and ultimately get ridiculed at by Simon and his croonies. i wish i’m not that invested as i am in AI this year. its been pretty bittersweet

That home visit! The footage of she and her mother in their tiny efficiency, one on the bed and one on the couch, the little pets, and the girl’s childish, whacky drawings that she feels are “art,” paired with her blue collar accent, her admission “I’ve never got to work with professionals before . . .”

We know the footage from home visits is edited and aired AFTER the producers know who’s been cut and who’s going on. When they put together Alexis’ package in the earlier of the two seasons, they already also had the footage of her audition: her grand ambitions, sad little voice, the judges’ laughing at her and her outburt afterward. So why show her home piece too?

So it’s like they put that together with the home visit to play up the very SADNESS of this show, and reality shows in general. Her narrow means, big hopes, and how futile they turn out to be. And then they let her back a second year just to play her one more time, and she went right with it, poor thing, with her budget attempt to dress up and be ladylike.

I think that they think that a subliminal level, our investment in the strong, talented, poised people who win or become hits off the show is deepened off of all these smashed, little pathetic hopes.

They may be right. But. Eeeeeeeeevil.

She made it to the third round, just shy of Hollywood, and she made the TV show. It’s not like she didn’t make it past the cattle call.

I wasn’t trying to down play her appearance on AI. I just thought “American Idol” referred to the #1 or at least was reserved to the top 13. I’m glad you added the word “contestant” to the title.

Drug overdose, maybe?

No, she was hit by a car. See MJ’s new headline post.

Ocean City and Seaside are kind of quiet little beach towns. Unlike the rest of NJ, they have even more archaic rules about alchohol than PA does. You can’t even buy booze in Ocean City, and in either place you will be ticketed for a holding a beer in your hand anywhere but on private property. So, it’s not really the type of place you’d expect to find someone dead on the street at 4 am. Ah – so the hit and run thing explains that I guess.

I had no idea she was from Allentown before now. I’m originally from the great Lehigh Valley myself. Which of course, requires me to point out MJ that the Allentown newspaper is actually called the Morning Call. Since you’re from Pittsburgh, I’ll let it slide this time

She was a colorful person who actually was not a bad artist. Hopefully she is at peace and has found the love she was looking for in the afterlife and is being accepted for her unique strange differences and not being belittled because of them.

This.

I liked the way she sang, and will definitely be raising a glass to her.
Sure she was unstable but these “joke” auditions take these people and run with them without thought of consequence. While Idol cannot be blamed for her issues it is certainly clear to me that they don’t give two shits about people as long as their pockets get lined. It’s no better than pointing and laughing at retarded people.

We still use the word “actressing” around here and I will never forget her.
Be at peace.

Being this invested now is really strange for me, last season is usually forgotten at this point, or barely on my radar.

I’m sorry she’s dead. I think of her mother – how bad it must be now that her daughter (and means of support) is gone.

My daughter told me she read on Alexis’ MySpace that she had 72 cents in her pocket. Sad. I’m not blaming A.I. but it is sad that Simon and company have multi-millions and this poor wannabe had less than a dollar.