SuBo tells Oprah about bullying torment (VIDEO)

SuBo tells Oprah about bullying torment (VIDEO)
SuBo tells Oprah about bullying torment (VIDEO)

Susan Boyle feels 'like a princess' since being embraced around the world following years of bullying. The international singing sensation and Britain's Got Talent runner-up spoke about the psychological damage caused by school bullying while appearing on Oprah Winfrey's US chat show. She said: "(Bullies were) burning my clothes with a cigarette and stuff like that and trying to trip me up. It wasn't really human. I was being hit around the head, stuff like that." She told Oprah: "(There was) really repeated name calling. It made me feel as if nobody loved me. I really didn't matter. I was just a target. Once you give bullies that power, they've really got a hold on you." Susan said she tried to gain respect through singing, saying: "I couldn't do the fisticuffs because, to be honest, I was an absolute coward." The Britain's Got Talent hopeful turned chart-topper said she now felt like a "princess", adding: "I feel loved, and that's something I didn't feel when I was younger."

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Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.