While promoting Celebrity Rehab Two, season one American Idol loser Nikki McKibben claimed Simon Cowell pushed her into an alcohol and drug addiction because he was mean to her.

“I came out of Idol with a lack of self-confidence,” McKibbin tells the new issue of Us Weekly. “I think I had my first solo in school when I was 5, and I got more as I got older: That’s the biggest compliment in choir. I had never been told I wasn’t good enough. Having to hear it for so many weeks from Simon Cowell killed me inside. I couldn’t get the shit he had said to me out of my head.”

She continued: “It drove me deeper into my depression. I wouldn’t say that this was Simon’s fault. It just added to the addict that I already was.”

Hear more of Nikki’s sob story when Celebrity Rehab Two premieres on October 23.

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