From stuff.co.nz:
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Pretty-in-pink NZ Idol reject Aroha Robinson has told of tears and tantrums behind the cameras on the hit reality TV show.
"Sometimes you just cry because of the pressure you are under," Aroha told Sunday News.
"Everyone thinks it's so easy but it's not. You have four days to learn two songs and you've got other things going on.
"By the time you are home you want to rest and go to sleep but you've got to keep working."
Aroha, who was voted off last Monday, said living in the Idol house with the other wannabes added to the pressure - leading to a number of confrontations, "just little fights that you have here and there with people".
"You look back and think, `Why did it have to be like that?"' she said.
"It's because you have been put into a house where you don't know these people and haven't got a chance to know them properly. It's like when you are at home - you can't tell me you don't fight with your brothers and sisters.
"I'm not the sort of person who will connect with someone straight away. We all have different personalities. Sometimes they clash."
But the Mt Maunganui 18-year-old - at first criticised by the judges for her attitude - said it had helped her grow up.
"I feel like a better person - not because I'm on TV but in myself and in situations I couldn't deal with before," she said.
"Learning about personal relationships, learning about what I actually want to be, and where I want to be in my life, and how I am going to get there.
"I'm learning steps all the way. I've still got so much to learn."
Aroha credited NZ Idol life coach Sian Jaquet and her fellow wannabes Kali, Indira and Matt for showing her the way.
"Kali said, `Don't do that, do this!' She led me in the right way," Aroha said.
"She always turned me towards the good way - how to deal with people and how to come across on stage and performing."
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Disappointingly un-juicy!!
Sorry, but 4 days to learn 4 minutes of music is NOT a tough ask.
Especially when you've chosen songs that you mostly know anyway.
Stink.
It must be hard living in a house with people you don't know that well but that's always been the case with the Idol Shows - the Final 10 live together so you learn to become more tolerant. Some people can get on easily with others but it can take others a bit longer to open up to new people, it depends on the people and how comfortable you feel around them.
I agree with Aroha that everyone has different personalities and because of this not eveyone is going to get on to begin with but as they get to know the contestants they would be more aware of their personalities there will be personality clashes but hey what's new that happens everywhere at school in the workforce. There is always someone out there who makes life more difficult for others.
I think Aroha did well living all those weeks in the Idol house and as each Idol got eliminated it probably made it easier living in the house - more space, more room to move. Anyway the Idol contestants must get paid every week they are on the Show, so that's a consolation.