Last night’s America’s Got Talent produced one particularly emotional performance. When contestant Jonathan Allen took to the stage,nobody quite expected what would happen next.
Standing onstage, he revealed that his parents had kicked him out of the house on his 18th birthday for being gay. After cheers from the audience, he stunned the crowd with an incredible performance, after which the audience and the four judges gave him a standing ovation. Howie Mandel, one of the judges, then said this to Jonathan,
“Let me just say, you seem like a good person, and you have a dream, and a talent, and your own family disowned you, but with your talent, this show has become your family, and we’d like to say ‘welcome home.’ We love you, we accept you, and we are so proud that you came here.”
Watch Jonathan’s incredible performance in the video above.
