In the rehearsals before tonight’s showing of “American Idol”, contestant Lauren Alaina injured her voice. The injury was addressed at the beginning of the “Idol” show.

Access Hollywood is reporting that eyewitnesses at rehearsal noticed Alaina’s voice was strong on her first song, but she lost her voice during the second song and left the stage, crying, after the third song (that practice run didn’t go well, either).

The “American Idol” house doctor was called on stage at the beginning of the show to fully explain what happened to her voice. “During the rehearsal, Lauren was really pushing her voice to get the maximum sound out an doing that she kind of blew out one of her vocal chords,” he said. “[S]o her vocal chords were really rough and sprained, kind of like a runner with a badly sprained ankle.”

When asked by Ryan Seacrest if she would be able to last the hour, the doctor said, “We gave her lots of medicines…and she’s going to do great.”

Alaina said when asked about her voice, I’m here, I’m ready to sing. Don’t worry about it.”

Make sure to watch the “American Idol” finale at 8/7 central to see if Alaina’s vocal issues affected her chances to win the title.