Photo: Susan Boyle | By Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times / Yahoo | [Remember that frumpy little lady who had the voice of Heaven’s Head Angel when she auditioned for BGT back in 2009? Here’s an update…] Susan Boyle, the Scottish singer who became an overnight sensation while competing on “Britain’s Got Talent,” revealed Sunday that she had a stroke last year.
The 62-year-old mezzo-soprano shared the health update on live TV when she returned for the Season 16 finale of the talent show that launched her career in 2009. Boyle joined Lucie Jones of the West End Cast of “Les Misérables” to perform “I Dreamed a Dream,” her original audition song from 14 years ago that plucked the modest church volunteer from obscurity and made her a YouTube superstar.
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Boyle further opened up about her health scare in a Facebook post following the performance.
“Tonight I had the privilege of returning to ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ and performing with the wonderful cast of ‘Les Miserables,'” she wrote. “This evening was even more special for me as in April of 2022 I had a stroke.
“For the past year I have worked so hard to get my speech and singing back, with the sole aim of being able to sing on stage again & tonight my hard work & perseverance paid off, singing the song that started it all, ‘I Dreamed A Dream,'” she wrote.
In 2009, when Boyle came in a surprise second during the show’s final round, the “emotionally drained and exhausted” performer apparently collapsed from nerves and exhaustion and was admitted to the Priory Hospital, a psychiatric clinic in London.
Boyle shared in 2013 that she had been diagnosed with what was then called Asperger’s syndrome, a developmental disorder on the autism spectrum that affects social interaction and communication skills. As a child, Boyle said, she suffered from learning disabilities she was told resulted from oxygen deprivation at birth. In 2012, she sought the advice of a specialist who determined she had an above-average IQ. [Susan has appeared on several US talk shows and has a quick and hilarious sense of humor!]
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In Triumphant ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ Homecoming, Susan Boyle Reveals She Had a Stroke
