Aw, this is like those Slumdog kids all over again.  It turns out that despite her daughter’s Oscar nomination, Gabourey Sidibe’s poor mom still has to sing in the subway for spare change like a common hobo.

Alice Tan Ridley shows up three times a week at New York’s busiest subway stations to wow commuters with her electrifying R&B act. “My name is not on Gabby’s paycheck,” the good-natured Ridley told The Post yesterday.  Ridley, a former nursery-school teacher and Department of Education teacher’s aide, has been belting out tunes in the subway for 18 years. “For a while, I was teaching and doing the singing, burning the candle at both ends to support my family,” Ridley said.

Until… she became bedridden and couldn’t work?  Got fired for refusing the advances of a superior?  Racism?

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