With her debut album being released later this month, Susan Boyle has been doing her best talking to the media and trying to get publicity.
But this latest interview is out of the norm as SuBo opens up about her painful past of being bullied and living with a learning disability.
Susan reveals about her school days:
“You’re looking at someone who would get the belt every day. ‘Will you Shut up, Susan!’ – whack!
I was often left behind at school because of one thing or another. I was a slow learner. I’m just I’m a wee bit slower at picking things up than other people. So you get left behind in a system that just wants to rush on, you know? That was what I felt was happening to me.
There’s nothing worse than another person having power over you by bullying you and you not knowing how to get rid of that thing.
There was discipline for the sake of discipline back then. But it’s all very different now. I think teachers are taught to understand children with learning disabilities a lot better.”
Susan also added that she spent many years taking care of her elderly parents. Her father passed away in the 1990s and her mother back in 2007, which left SuBo “devastated.”
She reveals:
“After mum died it didn’t fully register until maybe six months after. That’s when the loneliness set in and there was nobody around except my cat Pebbles. When you lose someone as powerful as your mum you feel as if a part of you is taken away and that does things to your confidence.
My confidence was pretty down at that time. A good way of levelling it out, I found, was to tell myself that even though she’s not here physically, mentally and spiritually she is.
That’s what keeps you going. I have my faith, which is the backbone of who I am, really.”
Though things are looking up for Boyle as she admits she’s a changed person.
Adding, “I had a slight disability, but rather than let that rule my life I had to find my abilities and make the most of them instead.”
Poor SuBo.
[Image via WENN.]
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