14 DAY TRIAL // Singing sensation Susan Boyle has taped her third appearance on the Oprah Winfrey Show, in which she talks about her book “The Woman I Was Born to Be,” her upcoming album “The Gift” and being relentlessly bullied when she was growing up.
Just like she says in her book, Susan was deprived of oxygen shortly after birth, which made of her a hyperactive child who had trouble focusing and whose learning skills were slower.
Doctors told her parents they shouldn’t expect much of her, as we also informed you a while ago. Today, Susan Boyle, the biggest singing sensation in years, the best selling artist of 2009 and an amazing woman overall, is proving those very doctors wrong.
Before sitting down with Oprah to talk about being bullied in school and what she’d say to those bullies today, Susan treated her fans to her rendition of the classic “Don’t Dream It’s Over.”
Billed as the biggest performance ever to air on Oprah in the show’s history, Susan Boyle showed once more precisely what it is that has made her the idol of millions around the world.
The subsequent interview only came to confirm that, as Susan openly talked about being bullied and her life today, when she gets to wake up every day and feel “like a princess.”
“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,” Susan told Oprah.
However, it wasn’t the physical bullying that broke her heart, because, even back then, she was tough and would often chase after them to teach them a lesson.
“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,” the singer says.
The moment Susan discovered singing, those bullies lost their hold on her because she’d found a new way to communicate, there where words failed her.
“What you do is you do well in something and you try and gain their respect in some way, and that’s what I was trying to do with my singing,” Susan says.
Thanks to her impressive talent and the fact that it’s finally getting the recognition it deserves, not a single day passes now that Susan doesn’t feel like a princess.
More important, “I feel loved,” she says. “And that’s something I didn’t feel when I was younger,” the singer adds.
Below is a video of Susan Boyle’s rendition of “Don’t Dream It’s Over” and the subsequent interview with Oprah. Enjoy.