One American Idol contestant has a particularly special connection to judge Lionel Richie, we learn in a new clip shared exclusively with Billboard.
“I have a great-grandma, she’s 78 and she loves you,” the contestant tells Richie, before she’s escorted in to meet her idol. The singer warmly embraces the great-grandmother, before she reveals that she and her husband met because of his song “Lady.”
“No way!” Richie exclaims, before the great-grandmother clarifies that she and her husband were “dancing to ‘Lady,’ and when we got married, we walked down the aisle to it.”
To add a cherry on top of an already heart-melting story, Richie pulled the grandmother in close for a sweet slow dance, while he serenaded her with “Lady.”
To see it all go down, tune in to Sunday’s episode of American Idol at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.
Watch the sweet clip above.