Pop singer-songwriter Emmanuel Kelly appeared on The Kelly Clarkson Show today (July 8) to share with host Kelly Clarkson his full-circle American Idol moment.
Kelly's story about becoming the "first differently-abled pop star" has touched many. He was abandoned in a box as an infant in his war-torn birthplace of Iraq before nuns from a Mother Teresa orphanage brought him in.
They raised him with Ahmed, another boy who was also born with "severely underdeveloped limbs due to the chemical warfare in the community" and whom he considers to be his brother.
Humanitarian Moria Kelly flew them to Australia for a series of life-changing surgeries before eventually adopting them both.
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