It was a past the producers were told about back in November before she made finals, Davis claims.
"I was open with the information from the very beginning,'' Davis said. "There was no outside pressure for me to tell them, and my involvement with the website didn't even show up in the background check they did on all of the contestants."
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"I am very disappointed in the show," Davis, a Los Angeles native, said. "It is my belief that any woman who could endure what I have endured, and still hold her head high and fight to make something of herself, is worthy of being called an idol."
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"I was 18 years old at the time and 3,000 miles away from home," she said. "But I simply refused to go back home without a college degree and at the time it seemed like the best way to earn the money I needed to continue my education. Everyone knows why I did it."
Davis also said the site was under different ownership when she was working there, and the allegations that the site contained child pornography are untrue.
"I just want people to know the site was not a child pornography site when I worked there," Davis said. "And I have never been involved in anyway with the abuse of children, which is what child pornography is."
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"All I know is I believe I could have won and I also believe someone else thought that too and that's why it happened,'' Davis said.
Of course, the controversy surrounding Davis has fueled many offers from labels, but she says she is still looking over all of them. In the meantime she only has two definite plans.
"I'm definitely planning on coming back to Howard in the fall to get my degree,'' she said. "But during my free time now I'm going to be studying for the LSAT which I'll take in June."
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"I'm not going to discourage anyone from supporting me in any way," Davis said. "The fans of the show have all the power because they choose who the next 'American Idol' is, and they can make me a star anyway. Their anger helps me vent."
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