David Archuleta

Because I don't—this doesn't make sense.

It's very confusing.

And—

The talks that led to me writing my book, Devout,

with Jeanette, like we would meet together and talk about, and it would just feel like this back and forth of feeling validated and seeing us like, Oh my gosh, you went through that too.

Oh my gosh, I went through that too.

Oh my gosh, this is what that happened with you and your, your mom, like that happened with me and my dad.

And it was just kind of, and our parents knew each other.

So like my dad was friends with her, her mom and Jeanette and her mom would come to like some of my shows and my music video shoots.

And, um,

I would like go over there and like visit her mom because her mom was in the middle of fighting her cancer.

And it was just kind of wild.

And we also had like the Mormon dynamic as well.

So we both grew up LDS.

So we felt this like kindred, like this...

like this bond in those two different ways.

And I feel like when we would talk, a lot of times we would hide behind our parent because we didn't really have an identity without them.

So she would be like, yeah, my mom, as long as my mom's okay.

Like she wasn't doing anything for herself.

And I feel like that's made it, you know, acting a very complicated thing for her because she was like, I'm doing this for my mom.