Crazy, embarrassing, sad " but funny: how I finally embraced my X Factor humiliation | Emily Wilson
I spent 10 years burying the shame of being a failed contestant on the US version of the show. Then a 15-year-old helped me see it differently My name is Emily, I'm a standup comedian and when I was 15, I was on The X Factor US. But if you'd told me back then that I'd be willingly telling you that, let alone regaling audiences " while touring a show " about the experience, I'd tell you that you were in the wrong mult…