The diagnosis that changed Susan Boyle's life | A Current Affair

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TLDRIn a recent episode of 'A Current Affair', Susan Boyle reflects on her incredible journey a decade after her breakout performance on 'Britain's Got Talent'. Initially overwhelmed by instant fame, she struggled with public scrutiny and mental health issues, leading to a diagnosis of Asperger's syndrome. Susan has become an advocate for kindness and understanding, emphasizing the need to see the whole person rather than labels. With a newfound perspective on life, she shares her dreams of pursuing activities like cycling and learning to fly. Susan's story is one of resilience, personal growth, and a desire to connect with others through her music, as evidenced by her latest album, 'Ten'.

Takeaways

  • 🎤 Susan Boyle gained fame on 'Britain's Got Talent'.
  • 🧩 She was later diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome.
  • 🌍 Susan sold over 25 million albums globally.
  • 💔 Instant fame led to public meltdowns due to pressure.
  • ✨ She's become an advocate for kindness and understanding.
  • 🚴‍♀️ Susan has new personal goals like learning to ride a bike.
  • ✈️ She expresses interest in getting her pilot's license.
  • 🐴 Owning a horse is on her bucket list.
  • 🎶 Her new album, 'Ten', celebrates her journey in music.
  • 💪 Susan's story exemplifies resilience and personal growth.

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  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    This segment discusses Susan Boyle's journey from her debut on Britain's Got Talent a decade ago to her struggles with fame, including public meltdowns and family issues. Despite these challenges, she emphasizes the importance of kindness and being seen as a whole person. Her candid insights reveal how she dealt with immense pressure, inspired by her mother to pursue her dreams. Her publicist sheds light on the negative headlines she faced and the challenges of sudden fame, which were compounded by her diagnosis of Asperger's syndrome, reshaping her understanding of herself and her experiences.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:11:18

    As the interview progresses, Susan reflects on her coping strategies following her Asperger's diagnosis, highlighting the importance of relaxation techniques. Despite past meltdowns, her team and she believe they are less frequent now. Susan shares her dreams, including obtaining a bike and a pilot's license, underscoring her desire to keep entertaining and pursuing new experiences. The segment closes with a glimpse of her rehearsal for the Britain's Got Talent finale, showcasing her tenacity and passion for performance despite her unique challenges. Her new album

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Video Tanya Jawab

  • What is Susan Boyle known for?

    Susan Boyle is known for her remarkable performance on 'Britain's Got Talent' where she showcased her incredible singing talent.

  • How did fame impact Susan Boyle?

    Fame brought both success and challenges for Susan, leading to personal struggles such as public meltdowns and family issues.

  • What diagnosis did Susan receive?

    Susan Boyle was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, which provided insights into her challenges.

  • What coping skills did Susan develop?

    Susan learned relaxation techniques to manage hyperactivity and anxiety resulting from her diagnosis.

  • What are some of Susan's current goals?

    Susan dreams of riding a bike, learning to drive, obtaining a pilot's license, and owning a horse.

  • What is Susan Boyle's new album called?

    Her new album is called 'Ten', celebrating her decade in the music industry.

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    [Music]
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    hello welcome to this special edition of
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    a current affair coming to you tonight
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    from london
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    [Music]
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    ten years ago the world was obsessed
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    with susan boyle after she walked out
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    onto the stage of britain's got talent
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    and sang in that surprising voice that
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    she had a dream
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    but fame and success can be a
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    double-edged sword and susan struggled
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    afterwards with public meltdowns and
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    family issues even while her albums were
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    breaking sales records
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    then she got a diagnosis that changed
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    everything
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    because you were also carrying the
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    dreams of everyone who's
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    ever been bullied
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    ever been misunderstood
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    ever been marginalized maybe
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    i was really saying if i could do
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    you can do it
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    and it's amazing that the amount of
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    people have taken that up
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    physical disabilities and everything is
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    that your message
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    yeah
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    to spread the kindness
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    yeah don't say just a part of me just
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    see the whole person
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    not just
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    about me just the whole person
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    it's a pretty good whole person
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    it was such an act of courage i think
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    wasn't it i did mostly for my parents
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    because my mother died two years before
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    that
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    and i said to her to try and do
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    something with my life she used to uh
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    say well you're doing yourself you've
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    got a reasonable voice you should do
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    something with it did you really think
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    about not going ahead
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    well now courtney pierce morgan i
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    was all set to quit the show but he told
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    me don't
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    you have you have the press to prove a
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    point to go back and do it again
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    glad i didn't know
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    i can imagine how hard was it though to
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    you know just stay with it
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    well
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    when you've got uh a lot of pressure a
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    lot of different things going at once it
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    is difficult but you say to yourself
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    this is what you wanted to do this is
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    what you
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    really
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    put yourself in for
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    susan was an immediate phenomenon to
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    date she sold more than 25 million
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    albums being number one in 40 countries
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    and had two grammy nominations but 10
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    years ago the instant fame took its toll
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    susan broke down after the final of
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    britain's got talent the pressure was
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    too much i was already
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    you were i mean there had been times
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    i guess back when we look back at the
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    pressure that you came under
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    you know you were a global sensation
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    how did you
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    process all of that pressure susan well
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    to begin with i found it difficult we
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    are not going to lie to you but uh i
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    think uh
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    you know it's defeated the unknown
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    really you know that's really what it
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    was at that particular time but uh
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    as the years have gone by as i learned
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    to
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    learn to you know tune myself into
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    things more there were people at the
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    time who had concerns about your health
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    and they thought it was too much for you
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    do you remember feeling
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    that kind of pressure and that sort of
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    concern about whether it was too much
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    well
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    after the team i didn't have the tools
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    to deal with it one person who knows
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    exactly how challenging this time was
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    for susan is her publicist and manager
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    from the very start nicola phillips my
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    initial role was to come in and do
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    publicity and also look down on the very
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    negative headlines that were happening
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    at the time i mean there was there was
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    this tall poppy thing i mean first of
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    all she was wrapped up in a big embrace
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    and then suddenly everyone was out to
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    get her and
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    how did she deal with that
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    i mean
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    not very well
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    but i don't think anybody would when you
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    know when you're being publicly
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    assassinated and called names and
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    no one's going to deal with that well
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    especially when you have come from a
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    very provincial town in scotland and you
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    have spent your life really wrapped in
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    cotton wool um so it was it was dealing
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    with that shock so no i mean obviously
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    it upset her for years i thought i had
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    something a bit more serious
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    you know so that was sort of took off my
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    shoulders a bit you'd always thought
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    that you were very slightly brain
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    damaged
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    weren't you
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    serious brain damage as well because it
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    was educative the assumption was that
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    you were a little bit slow that you were
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    a slow learner
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    but really when you got your asperger's
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    diagnosis you were also told that you
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    have a very high iq higher than normal
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    well
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    that came as a bit of a surprise
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    i think sudden fame
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    is
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    you know i mean it's a lot to deal with
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    for someone who
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    doesn't have aspergers
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    but
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    adds a whole other layer to it doesn't
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    it well you
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    and that ass aspergers you just have to
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    make people aware that sometimes you
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    have to go a certain place
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    you know don't be too
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    bombarded with things i mean at the very
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    beginning was very bombarded yes and and
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    you've been very open about your
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    aspergers which is you know
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    which is decent of you because a lot of
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    people
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    try to keep that stuff secret and you
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    haven't done that there's nothing that
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    keeps secret really there's nothing to
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    be ashamed of no everybody has something
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    i mean
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    we flow of your leg
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    but uh they shouldn't be ashamed of it
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    it's something that you bring out in the
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    open and the hope that you help other
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    people you know but i'd like to feel the
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    voice for people who have been underdog
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    no you you you described it as king
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    kong's mother when you feel like you're
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    having a
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    what you're talking about
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    i'm more controlling it i can laugh at
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    it now feels like it's in a bubble and
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    you can't really talk very well because
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    it's communicative as well
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    if people give you a bit more time
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    like you're doing
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    thank you
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    i can
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    eventually get my words on and i'm okay
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    i don't get a sense that you're
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    struggling with your words at all right
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    [Laughter]
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    whatever though
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    so what are the coping skills that you
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    learned when you got that diagnosis
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    well
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    when you
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    when you're like that
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    you get hyperactive you know when you're
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    shaking everything so learn to calm down
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    using relaxation techniques snowball a
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    lot of people they've remembered the
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    public meltdowns and and the you know
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    the serious issues that she's had over
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    the years and a lot of people have
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    formed a view that she really shouldn't
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    be performing anymore because it's not
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    good for her
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    well i see i completely disagree right
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    she has an amazing life
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    susan will never care about you know
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    money she'll never care about chart
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    positions she cares about making people
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    happy for us having to go through you
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    know airports security and goodness
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    knows what else but for somebody with
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    asperger's that's heightened because you
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    know suddenly you're experiencing a pat
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    down or
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    people are in your face it's you know
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    it's a lot do you think that
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    she's got a handle on the meltdowns now
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    and that they just won't happen again
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    are you confident about that i'm not
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    saying that they won't ever happen again
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    right i mean but i think in terms of
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    where
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    we were um and the frequency
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    i mean they're they're few and far
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    between now what are your dreams now on
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    the bucket list a little bucket list
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    okay
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    i want us to ride a bike i've got my
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    very first bike never had a bait when i
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    was a kid a bicycle
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    and i've got my professional license
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    i've learned to drive sure really
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    you're good so far well i've managed to
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    just hit a street lane but that way
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    okay that's a really good start
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    and why wouldn't you have gone for your
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    license you know years ago why has it
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    taken until now for you to do that oh 58
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    my figures at 58. a little bird told me
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    that you're also thinking about getting
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    your pilot's licence
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    oh yeah i did mention to somebody that
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    was interested in flying
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    are you serious about serious about it
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    yeah
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    so there you are is it just a shot
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    behind the wheel or something
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    mind you uh
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    i definitely have nerves to steal me
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    dipping i think city dive
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    what else is on your bucket list
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    i was gonna buy a horse
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    a horse no yes i'm going to going mad to
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    die
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    why do you want a horse just a beautiful
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    animals they are beautiful animals
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    you're going to learn to ride as well
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    let's keep you guessing
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    there's nothing you don't want to do now
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    is there it feels like you've been
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    i don't know keep going i just want to
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    keep entertaining people making albums
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    touring
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    in my next lifetime i'm going to have
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    that voice
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    we cry when we first see him you say you
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    go don't they have to say it's a good
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    bit to be because you keep yourself
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    grounded you also make yourself
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    appear more normally other people you
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    know approachable if you like and is
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    that important to you not to get ears
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    and graces to
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    put ears and glasses on when you need
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    them
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    [Music]
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    we were given exclusive access to their
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    rehearsal on the eve of the britain's
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    got talent finale just kind of come
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    together we're music legend michael ball
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    look at me
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    showbiz i plumb and love it and susan
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    we're preparing for their live
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    performance
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    it's the biggest show on british
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    television yes it's uh it's a special
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    one as well it's 10 year anniversary
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    and and i'm singing with one of the most
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    fabulous singers was today your first
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    rehearsal
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    your first rehearsal is literally the
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    day before the performance
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    [Laughter]
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    are you feeling confident i really am
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    and i think there's a different
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    performance energy that you get i mean
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    you're in a sort of subterranean right
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    here
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    when you walk out and it's it's going to
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    be wonderful it'll be wonderful it just
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    it's yeah yeah but we've got to nail it
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    yeah yeah you got to nail it okay i'm
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    getting out of your way i mean there's
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    no other staff from reality tv who has
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    you know been going 10 years
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    and it's it's hard in the entertainment
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    industry to go missing for a while which
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    she's done and then come back
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    yeah
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    but we managed to do it
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    she's the queen of the compact including
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    the uk
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    and scotland
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    lots of space for further information
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    might you come to australia
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    i would love to come to australia i'd
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    love to revisit them australians would
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    love to have you back susan and i if you
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    come back i'll introduce you to my two
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    horses
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    well they're good
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    okay we can go for a ride
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    susan is not your run-of-the-mill
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    recording star and she's not your
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    run-of-the-mill interview either she's
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    extremely shy and her asperger's plays
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    into how she interacts and how she
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    communicates which really when you think
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    about it makes her achievements even
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    more remarkable she has more money now
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    than she will ever spend so the fact
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    that she's keen to step back into the
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    spotlight is testament to her grit and
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    maybe a little bit of scottish
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    stubbornness as well her new album ten
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    is available now
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    you
Tags
  • Susan Boyle
  • Britain's Got Talent
  • Asperger's Syndrome
  • Fame
  • Resilience
  • Personal Growth
  • Music Career
  • New Album
  • Mental Health
  • Kindness