Susan Boyle, emotional trainwreck.....

[marmar]

Susan Boyle Cries, Sucks Thumb After ‘Today’ Performance
by Ann Murray-Yavar

Nov 27th, 2009 | 2:35 PM |


Could Susan Boyle once again be in the midst of a mental breakdown?

After Monday’s performance on the ‘Today‘ show, which included the songs ‘I Dream A Dream,’ and ‘Cry Me A River,’ the ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ star reportedly broke down, says the Daily Mail.

Loving fans had met up with Boyle for lunch at Rock Center Café in New York’s Rockefeller Center after the show, where they handed her a handmade quilt created by fans around the world. The Scottish singer was moved to tears and then, trembling, began to suck her thumb. She quickly recovered and later “performed a lively dance” for the fans - but not before the whole scene was caught on film.

A spokesperson for the singer said that Boyle was just “overjoyed and extremely touched with the reception she had had from everyone in America.”

Boyle has been plagued with emotional difficulties and had several breakdowns during some of her promotional appearances. She entered a rehab facility after coming in second place on ‘Britain’s Got Talent,’ back in May.

She’s currently promoting her first album, “I Dream A Dream.”


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[tabatha]

1. She is doing the growing she never did while younger.

She should not be scrutinized in the public, just like Semenya Caster should not have been.

I should add "gossip, gossip, juicy gossip - what would we do without it?"

[TwilightGardener]

2. Uh...yikes--"began to suck her thumb".

Why doesn't she just make recordings? Performances in public seem too stressful.

[Warpy]

5. Right, she does things like forget lyrics when under pressure

but she'd do marvelously in a studio surrounded by a small group of people she'd know better.

I would hate to see her career derailed because some Rover Boy thought she should buck up and do what healthy performers do and tour.

Touring makes healthy performers snap. Going "rock star" on a hotel room isn't uncommon.

She should stick to small performance venues, two weeks at a time, instead of being expected to do large concerts in a different town every day.

[TwilightGardener]

8. Yep, no reason why she can't live very well off of recordings, and

a few public performances when she's comfortable with it. Seems like she's being exploited to increase someone's bottom line, really.

[RKP5637]

9. I think you're quite correct!!! n/t

[Captain Hilts]

16. She was fine singing in front of 20K screaming people in Dublin when she could not hear

the music or herself singing. Evidently, she was great even though the audience was chanting in different cadences from the song she was singing. The Independent said "She went down a storm" in the performance, which means very good.

She lost her cool when a bunch of yobs sat in the front row and hassled her. It clicked in her responses to being bullied.

[liberalmuse]

10. The thumb thing was likely a joke.

She has a unique sense of humor.

[dkf]

3. Oh for goodness sakes leave the woman alone people!

Why can't talented singers simply do their recordings and go back to obscurity? Talent is talent and nowadays with excellent recordings it can be appreciated by anyone with a decent sound system.

Heck we love recordings from people who are already DEAD. We don't demand the exhibition of their bodies or anything. Geez.

These producers are vultures.

[kestrel91316]

4. I hate to see people with stellar talent and concomitant brain injury,

however mild, picked on and driven to the brink by the celebrity-making machine and "adoring fans" with overblown expectations.

She has my sympathy. At least now she has a pile of money so she can get whatever emotional help she needs.

[Frustratedlady]

7. I agree. I wish the media and the producers would let her sing in her own way.

...and not try to make her over. She is a lovely woman who has been thru so much humiliation. (I hope that little snip on the original performance has learned her lesson, now that her face has been spread around the world for months. She still irritates me.)

I have Susan's new recording and she seems even timid on that. Just look at how far she's come in less than a year. I think she'll eventually blossom into the great star she has always dreamed of being. She's already broken so many records.

Go, Susan!

[Gman]

6. Give her a break. The woman is a phenomenonal talent

the likes of which come along only very rarely. Barbara Streisand, Aretha Franklin and maybe one or two other women singers are such phenomena. At this relatively late stage of her life, this is a huge change for her. She took care of her mother for the vast majority of her life. If she wants to suck her thumb, no problem here. Like someone said above, she's growing up. I for one am ecstatic for her to find there's much more to life than just her home and her cat.

[Captain Hilts]

14. Yep. She's amazingly talented. A lot of folks are just figuring that out.

She was so pissed at the thumb-sucking story she called News of the World about it.

www.newsoftheworld.co.uk

[hadrons]

11. Not surprised

The press and many of her fans tended to made her out to be an oppressed spinster who's tremendous talent was ignored by circumstance when it looks like she's really a socially awkward woman who might not be all there in the head ... someone in her family who really cares for Susan needs to step in. She can had a successful career, but not this way.

[zalinda]

12. Wow, what a hit piece!!!!!!

She got emotional after fans made her a handmade quilt. Yeah, if this reporter knew how much time and effort it took to make the thing, maybe they would understand the tears of joy. The thumb sucking was a way to tell the crowd that she would cherish it as a babe cherishes their "blankie".

This article reads like they are trying to PUT her back into the rehab facility.

zalinda

[Captain Hilts]

13. This story has been completely discredited. nt

[Bluenorthwest]

15. Gossip from tabloids

The Daily Mail, just prior to Michael Jackson's death, was reporting that he could no sing, could barely stand, and that the show he was planning was going to have just 15 minutes of Michael, with 'an hour and a half of lights and choreography'. No matter what you might think of Michael, you can see that none of that was true, by looking at the film they put out showing his rehearsals. Dancing, singing and running the show.
The Daily Mail lies.