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Jason Warrior, 26, of Chicago, during his American idol audition. (ABC Photo)

Three years ago, Jason had a vocally impressive run on that show, snagging one of its four chairs and successfully defending it for two weeks.

But he was ousted in his fourth week on the show, accused judge Meghan Trainor of saying things that were “hurtful,” then said he “had a very great feeling” he would have won the show had he been treated fairly.

Show creator “Diddy” called Jason’s exchange with Meghan “crazy, rude and disrespectful.”

Jason, 25, from Chicago, said he learned from the experience and is sorry the exchange with Meghan ever occurred.

“I responded out of my emotions,” he says in his American Idol intro. “I thought I knew it all. I thought I was all of that and a bag of chips dipping hot sauce.

“But I wasn’t even close to being there yet. And I had to have that humbling experience.

“That moment of immaturity, it almost completely destroyed my career … I made a mistake, but I learned from it. And I plan to show that I learned from it.”

Jason auditioned for American Idol with Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On.”

And you might say the judges were impressed by what they heard.

Lionel Richie called Jason’s audition “one of the strongest vocals I have ever heard on this show” and complimented him for making a Marvin Gaye song his own, something he said few singers can pull off.

Lionel also credited him with “a lot of guts to crawl back” into the singing show saddle.

Katie Perry called Jason’s performance “magnificent” and suggested he might have been on the wrong show before.

She certainly isn’t wrong about that. The Four on Fox was a hot mess, easily the worst singing show ever to find airtime on a major network.

And while no one put words in Jason’s mouth, it was a show where trash talk and drama seemed to be encouraged.

As for Jason, he also finished Top 20 on Season 11 of The Voice. And he’s released a good deal of music — both Christian and secular — since his last national TV appearance. Learn more about that here.

Here’s the clip of his Idol audition, released early by the show. American Idol returns to ABC Sunday at 8 p.m.