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"American Idol runner-up Crystal Bowersox has revealed that she split from her boyfriend before the finale. The 24-year-old from Ohio - who was beaten to the prize by Lee DeWyze last night - told Ryan Seacrest on his KIIS-FM show that she separated from Tony on Tuesday. Seacrest had prompted her to explain her previous statement that she had a &amp;quot;hard morning&amp;quot; that day, to which Bowersox replied: &amp;quot;You want an exclusive or what?!&amp;quot; She added: &amp;quot;Big Tony went home. He wasn&amp;#039;t cool with the lifestyle. I didn&amp;#039;t break up with him... it was a mutual thing. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s cool though, we&amp;#039;re both logical, grown adults. He&amp;#039;s a small town guy and that&amp;#039;s fine, I&amp;#039;m a small town girl, but I want this. I want this more than anything, this career, this lifestyle. I didn&amp;#039;t think he was up for it, he didn&amp;#039;t think he was up for it.&amp;quot; She continued to say that she was &amp;quot;a little sad&amp;quot; that the separation happened on the performance day but suggested that it &amp;quot;set that fire to my belly&amp;quot;. Bowersox added that she had &amp;quot;no one favourite moment&amp;quot; in the competition, describing the entire experience as an enjoyable ride. American Idol airs on Fox. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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