WATCH: Idols ruined my life, says Season 4 winner Jody Williams
She says not only has winning the show in 2007 caused a massive rift in her family, but people who managed her career at the time also ripped her off big time.
“Idols showed me the world, with the travelling overseas and meeting international artists. I just saw the money and a good life, but that was just the child in me,” Jody tells the Daily Voice. “My father started getting uncomfortable with the people who managed me because things started looking off, because I was being conned by the agents who managed me.
Shortly after winning the R1 million prize on Idols, Jody bought her parents a fancy house in Durbanville.“The gigs were drying up, the money was getting little, you know how it goes when a new Idols winner comes along, people stop booking the old Idols,” she says.“My parents were worried about what people would say if we lost the house. My father would call around for gigs, so I could be able to pay the bond for that month.
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