Carnie Wilson slams ‘cruel’ comments about daughter’s ‘American Idol’ audition

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the Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson, is speaking out about her daughter. “I just wanna say, we’re human, and the internet is so cruel.

It can be so cruel,” she said during Sunday’s “Music of the ’90s” panel at 90s Con in Hartford, Connecticut.Wilson was there with her bandmates, including her sister Wendy Wilson and their other bandmate, Chynna Phillips Baldwin, joined by AJ McClean of the Backstreet Boys.

Her remarks were in response to her daughter Lola Bonfiglio’s “American Idol” audition, which aired March 23. During the episode, Bonfiglio, 19, introduced herself and her father, musician and producer Rob Binfiglio, to “American Idol” judges Carrie Underwood, Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan. “I’m guessing you come from a musical family,” Underwood said, before asking her what she would perform. “First, I have to get some family members,” Bonfiglio said before grabbing her mom, Carnie, and aunt Wendy — who are co-founders of the popular ’90s pop group.They sang the 1992 Wilson Phillips hit “Hold On,” and got “yes” votes from judges Underwood, Richie, and Bryan, sending her to the Hollywood week of auditions.

Despite this victory, Wilson said there were still “comments” that “were really pissing me off, and I can’t respond.”She was referring to comments on X, formerly Twitter, such as one that read, “Lola ‘Phillips’ Bonfiglo sounded worse than 90% of the No votes … pretty blatant favoritism by association.” Another commenter wrote on YouTube, “How is this a fair audition?