'I know I could've made it: Keke Palmer is convinced she would have won American Idol.

Keke Palmer is convinced she would have won American Idol.

The Nope actress - who auditioned for kids' spin-off American Junior in 2003 but her try-out didn't make it on screen and she failed to progress - thinks she would have been a hit with viewers and the judges if she had taken part in the singing competition some years ago.

Appearing on Hot Ones, Keke was asked by host Sean Evans which reality show she believes she could win and replied: "I know for a fact, if it was at the right time, the right era, your girl would've been an American Idol.

"Oh yeah! I would've been up there with my girl Fantasia [Barrino]. Not her season though, 'cause she would've beaten me. But I would've been up in there, I know I could've made it at some point."

The 32-year-old actress has spent time thinking about the emotional story she would tell to win people over.

She said: "I had a storyline. "I'm from Chicago, my mom was a singer growing up, I grew up in church…

"You get what I mean? 'Cause you had to have that back in the day. You needed that storyline. I would've ate the damn America up."