Name: How I Became The First Disabled Popstar On X Factor
Uploaded: 2020-11-01T18:50:58.000Z
Duration: 13 min 50 s
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I'm Emmanuel Kelly, and this is my story.

without any birth certificates, passports or identity.

executions, experienced bombings going off

hearing noises every day that I didn't understand.

That's also where I met my now brother Ahmed

I always say the only thing thicker than blood is love.

but I love him more than words can ever, ever explain.

Whilst I was in that orphanage for the next seven years,

we knew it was up to us to take care of these kids.

We would have one meal a day at 4:00 PM every day

and we would have to feed these kids change their diapers

Eventually this exceptional woman Moira Kelly,

changed 1000 of kids' lives over the years

looking after kids at a Mother Theresa orphanage as well.

She gets on a plane and heads out to Iraq,

after spending an eight hour trip from Jordan to Iraq,

in a taxi with someone that doesn't speak English

I sat on a window ledge waiting and waiting and waiting.

even though I had moments where I felt alone

because of him, he reminded me every now and then

whether it was through singing to me that I wasn't alone.

And finally, on the third day she arrived

Number one, can she help us, will she help us?

Number two, is she and angel, she wearing the white dress

and I thought to myself, this could be the moment where

and number three, how the heck did this white woman

Cause she was whiter than white chocolate.

never seen a white person in my life at the age of five,

at like at the top of our lungs, a welcome song

I got to see the river of Babylon, got to experience Iraq,

and we got to step out of the walls of that orphanage

for the first time she brought us back to the end of it

My brother asked her a really serious question.

we called her auntie Moira he says, can you help us?

And he goes well its okay moira if you can't help

It took me a while, I think I was about eight years old

where I got told that story, and that's when I realized

the only thing thicker than blood is love.

It took mom two years auntie Moira, two years

Finally we arrived, I remember looking over the window ledge

and I thought, wow, how beautiful is that?

we arrived into the airport, oh stop right

and I said, auntie Moira, I'm very, very hungry

she goes, no worries boys, we have spaghetti bolognese

and we're like, what is spaghetti Bolognese

she goes, no, you don't said no, we need help.

See, we'd never used a knife and fork for the first term,

We'd never used a spoon for the first time

using the knife and fork was, completely new to us,

Spaghetti bolognese is the hardest meal to eat.

I mean it goes over you, it's messy, but after a while

and through as my life grew and I got bigger and older

But I learned to embrace myself so much so

I know I had my first girlfriend, my first kiss.

I lived a life that I would never have lived in Iraq.

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How I Became The First Disabled Popstar On X Factor

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