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.

American Idol season 23 reject Presley Cash is spilling the tea on TikTok about her audition for the show, saying the producers worked with her for months to be a contender only to have the judges reject her — and Cash implies that "the tea" is that her rejection was largely due to judge Carrie Underwood and Cash's connection to Taylor Swift.