American Idol reject Lacey Brown has revealed that she knew she would be going home this week and wasn’t at all surprised by her elimination.

Speaking to reporters on Thursday morning Lacey said:

“I woke up yesterday morning and had the strangest feeling that I was going home,”

“I hadn’t been tipped off, hadn’t read anything, but talked to a few of the contestants and said, ‘Look, I’m going home,’ she explained. “Something was off. It wasn’t that I’d made peace with it, I’d just gotten used to it. It’s a hard thing to hear, but when you’re there in that moment after you sing, you’re not in control of anything.”

Lacey also knows where she went wrong during her American Idol journey, saying that if she had to do it again she would put more energy into her performances.

She said:

“[The judges] kept asking for energy in my songs and I kept trying to give it and they kept saying it was a sleepy performance; they wanted to see a little more energy because I’m a happy and bubbly personality. The issue that I was having is I really love to sing ballads.”