Last week, the American Idol judges saved Michael Lynche from elimination. But a new report suggets this wasn’t the first time a contestant came close to leaving the show, only for an Idol mainstay to step in at the last minute. According to TMZ, Crystal Bowersox stormed out of the studio last month, sick of all the attention from the competition and asked Ryan Seacrest in the parking lot: “What’s the point?” Crystal, who said prior to this season that she had never watched American Idol , wanted to return to her family in Ohio. How did Seacrest convince Bowersox to stay? By stating that a victory would make her a millionaire and: “The greatest thing I ever did was make enough money so I could buy my mom a house.
