The Winner of Nathan Fielder’s Fake Singing Competition Calls His Critics ‘Petty’
As many fans had already guessed, the season finale of Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal found its star piloting a real-life 737, complete with a cabin full of professional actors delivering pre-scripted beverage orders. This was all thanks to Fielder’s clandestine, two-year-long quest to obtain his pilot’s license — and also, presumably, to the experience he gained by shaving off all of his body hair and reliving Captain Sully’s infant years.
While the episode mostly focused on Fielder’s flight, as well as the status of his mental health, it also revealed who won Wings of Voice, Fielder’s fake/kinda real singing competition show judged by co-pilots. The winner, Isabella Henao, wrapped up the show by belting out Evanescence's potentially disaster-averting anthem “Bring Me to Life.”
Now that the show has aired, Henao (or someone claiming to be Henao)treated like a “lab rat.”
Henao claimed that she has been “waiting to talk about the article,” which she says was “done as retaliation,” adding that her and Love “hung out a lot on the day of filming.” When asked for more details about the alleged “retaliation,” Henao explained that Love’s “team was begging HBO to do cross promotion for the release of her album and HBO refused. That’s when the Variety article was done.”
“(It) makes me sad,” Henao wrote in a follow-up comment. “It was a petty article, and I’m willing to bet someone on her team told her to do it considering she spoke very highly of Nathan leading up to the release.”
This is a far cry from what Love has said. After the Variety article dropped, she posted a video on Instagram stating that she was inspired to come forward and violate the NDA in an effort to “protect artists” and advocate for “greater transparency in entertainment contracts.”
But Henao, who guessed the show’s true nature after just one audition, criticized Love’s statements, maintaining that other Wings of Voice contestants were happy with how things turned out. “I don’t have any beef with her, and we hung out a lot,” Henao wrote. “But it did make me really sad since it felt as (if) the article and the campaign she went on was invalidating the incredible experience so many people had. Then to go and only post people ing her and ignoring those that disagreed. Especially after she had been hyping up Nathan in his Instagram comments for months prior? Yeah, that was not it for me.”
Of course, we will never know the exact truth about what really happened. Just like we’ll never know what goes on between a pilot and their co-pilot behind the closed door of a cockpit.
