Susan Boyle Talks About Being Beaten, Bullied as a Child With a Learning Disability
In a new
interview
Susan Boyle reveals that she was beaten daily at school for being slow and bullied by the other children. Susan says she has a slight learning disability and that they used to punish children for being slow. She also talks about the loneliness after the death of her mother.
The Britain’s Got Talent star says she was lashed with a belt every day by brutal teachers and cruelly taunted by other kids.
She said: "You're looking at someone who would get the belt every day. 'Will you Shut up, Susan!' -- whack!"
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“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."
She added: "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."
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"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."
What a horrifying story. We have great respect for her for staying strong all these years and not giving up on her dream, despite all the naysayers. We wish her continued success in life. Her new album, I Dreamed a Dream is available for pre-order at a huge discount at Amazon.com. It will be released on November 23rd.
