14 DAY TRIAL // Susan Boyle, the Scottish singing sensation that made international headlines once she auditioned for Britain’s Got Talent and stunned judges and audiences with her clear and very strong voice, is en route to another breakdown, friends believe. As of late, under the stress of the release of her first album, “I Dreamed a Dream,” Miss Boyle has started acting very strangely, the Mirror says.
The British tabloid claims to have it from very reliable sources that Susan Boyle is not exactly what one might call “well.” The stress she’s under is too much for her to handle, as also is the excessive attention that can’t but come when one artist puts out such a well-received (both critically and commercially) music album. Recently, she’s started singing and playing her own songs over and over again (day and night), talking in a strange American accent and telling everybody that her cat Pebbles no longer loves her.
“[The music] was so loud on Thursday I couldn’t hear Jeremy Kyle on TV! It started about a week before it was released so by the time it was on sale, we already knew every track by heart. I think her favorite song is ‘Wild Horses’ as that’s the one she plays the most. We’ve also seen two ambulances and a doctor come to her house. Susan had told me she had been feeling pains in her stomach,” Teresa Miller, 36, one of Miss Boyle’s neighbors, tells the Mirror.
Helen Barkhouse, 61, a close friend of Susan’s and her late mother’s carer, also says the singer has changed because of the strain she’s been under. “Susan was here wearing a black beret and a necklace and I told her how pretty she looked. She took them off and gave them to me. After her mother’s death Susan got really low. She once came up to me in the supermarket and said, ‘I really need a hug, can you give me a hug?’ She might be a star, but whenever Susan comes home we’ll make sure she’s properly taken care of,” Barkhouse says.
As we also reported the other day, all gossip on Susan Boyle’s state of mind aside, the singer is determined to break away from showbiz once promotion for her debut material is done, meaning around Christmas. Her publicist has already confirmed for the British media that Miss Boyle will be returning home to Scotland as soon as possible, only to emerge when she’s needed or to release new material.