‘American Idol’ Contestant Moves Carrie Underwood to Tears With Song About Postpartum Depression

American Idol contestant Hannah Harper struck a chord with judge Carrie Underwood during her audition.

Harper sang an original song titled “String Cheese” about her struggle with postpartum depression on the Monday, February 2, episode of the long-running competition singing show.

Before performing the song, Harper recalled the moment that inspired her to put pen to paper.

“I was sitting on my couch wallowing, and you have boys, you know, everybody wants to touch you, and I didn’t want to be touched,” Harper told the judges Luke Bryan, Lionel Richie and Underwood, 42. “I was just having a pity party, praying that the Lord would calm my spirit, and my son kept coming up to me, ‘Mom, open this. Mom, open this, open my cheese.’ I’m like, ‘Leave me alone with the dadgum cheese.’ ”

“I finally opened his cheese, and when I did, I realized that God had put me in that place and that where I was in my house was the biggest ministry that I could ever have in being a mom,” Harper contin...