It was 12:30 a.m. in the drive-through of a McDonald’s in Ann Arbor last month, and Crystal Bowersox and her son were on foot.
This was not the most glamorous place for a former “American Idol” runner-up to be, but so goes her life, and she’s proud of it. She was pretending to drive an invisible car, which embarrassed 17-year-old Tony, and she was fine with that, too..
Back in 2010, tens of millions of people knew Bowersox’s name. On April 21, she sang for maybe 100 at The Ark on Main Street, just after her van died and the two sound engineers at the nonprofit music club stepped in to help…