LiveDaily correspondent Colin Devenish caught up with Williams to chat about her role in the group, Destiny's Child's upcoming Christmas album, meeting Stevie Nicks and covering the Bee Gees.

LiveDaily: How did you prepare for your audition for Destiny's Child?

Michelle Williams: It was so on the spot. I got the phone call and I had to go the next day, you know what I mean? I used to sing back-up for Monica, and our choreographer referred me to Beyoncé [Knowles] and Kelly [Rowland], because they needed new members. I'd already met Beyoncé and Kelly, and I was familiar with them. They called me and let me know what the deal was, and I came down there, and I sang for them and danced for them. It was so cool, because they came and got me from the airport, I stayed at their house, I had a ball. We went to a seafood restaurant. We had so, so, so much fun. It turned out that I became one of the group, and I shot the video [for "Say My Name"] maybe a week or two after my audition. And the NBA All-Star game in Oakland was our first show together.

Kelly and Beyoncé grew up together, and they're practically like sisters. What's it like to join in the middle?

It's just like, say you've been at school for five years, and then you gotta go to another school. It's like meeting new friends. It just takes time to get to know everybody, get situated, get comfortable. With females it's even more difficult, because for some reason, female groups just don't work out. We know the number-one reason is because of jealousy, and that's not the case in Destiny's Child. I know that I am not the lead singer, and I am perfectly fine with what it is I do. What I did to prepare, they taught me. And they still teach me. They have wonderful management, their family is there for me--Matthew and Tina [Knowles, Beyoncé's parents]--they're like my parents. As far as I'm concerned, it's kind of natural. But it took some time.

Did your friends take bets on how long you'd last?

I'm sure they were just wondering what was going on. Everybody was wondering what was going on. Us in the group were wondering what was going on, but the people supposed who are supposed to be here are here, and God worked everything out to where everything was OK."

I'm sure you get a lot more attention now than when you were singing back-up with Monica. What do you do to keep yourself sane?

This past weekend, we all went to Miami for the weekend. Beyoncé and Kelly, they go to Miami a lot, and so I said, "OK, I'm going to go." Because a lot of times when we have days off, I'll come home and visit my family in Illinois. But I said, "This time I'm going to go where there's some water and some hot sun," and we had so much fun. We do things like that. And if we're in a hotel room, we just try to have time for ourselves. 

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