Underwood won Season 4 of the singing competition show in 2005, and recently returned for Season 23 as a judge.

If you are in need of examples, I’ll happily point you to Houston Texans quarterback CJ Stroud, or Hollywood actor Chris Pratt. And Carrie Underwood has always been a person that’s never shied away from spreading the word of God… though she hasn’t avoided criticism because of doing so.

As “American Idol” prepared to name the contestant who would round out this season’s top 24, Carrie Underwood got emotional. But the “Idol” judge’s emotions had more to do with the performance she had just heard than it did the pressure of the situation.