Susan Boyle Hospitalized In The Priory After Nervous Breakdown

Posted on June 1, 2009

Just hours after Susan Boyle was announced as runner-up on “Britain’s Got Talent,” Boyle was admitted to The Priory in London for an emotional breakdown. Read more on Susan’s condition below.

It was shocking to learn Susan Boyle did not win Britain’s Got Talent, and it certainly had to be a jolt to Susan Boyle who was believed to be a shoe-in for the win.

Paramedics helped the “spaced-out” Boyle through the lobby of the hotel and into an ambulance just after 6pm.

Susan was taken to Priory in Southgate, North London.

A source at the hotel said last night: “She’d been at the hotel for a few days, but since Saturday’s final had been acting strangely, causing a bit of a stir.

“The staff were concerned – something wasn’t right.

“When the paramedics and police arrived she agreed to go voluntarily. She didn’t make a fuss. The paramedics calmly took her out through the main lobby and into the waiting ambulance.

“It was all done very calmly. They didn’t want to stress or upset her. She didn’t look well – she looked lost, not all there.”

A worker from the Priory stated : “I was having a cigarette break when a whole load of ambulances arrived.

“Everyone was saying, ‘Who’s that’? Then I saw her and it was Susan Boyle. I was gobsmacked.”

“Police were called to doctors assessing a woman under the Mental Health Act. The woman was taken voluntarily by ambulance to a clinic,” a Boyle spokesperson said in a statement. “At the request of doctors, police accompanied the ambulance.”

Britain’s Got Talent’s Piers Morgan said Susan Boyle is “fine” and has just “gone in for some rest.”

“She needs to get away from everyone – get away from the show, from the media, the public, and just have a bit of down time to herself,” he said on U.K.’s GMTV morning show Monday.

Boyle won over millions with her beautiful rendition of “I Dreamed A Dream” from the musical Les Miserables during her audition for the show. She performed the same song on Saturday’s finale, but was defeated by dance troupe Diversity. Some people have reported that Boyle was angry and screamed “I hate this show” after losing but the winners said she had been “gracious” and nice.”

Said Morgan: “She had too long to wait between the audition show and the final, and the pressure just builds and builds and builds. It’s been crazy, she has gone from anonymity to being the most-downloaded woman in history.”

Fred O’Neil, a former voice coach, told the BBC: “It’s such a tragic situation, a woman who really just loves to sing, an innocent woman really, who is just caught up in this fame game.”

“I just hope that whatever fame that she has got out of this will eventually bring her some happiness,” he added. “Obviously at the present time it is not.”

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown even weighed in on Boyle’s situation: “I hope Susan Boyle is okay, because she is a really, really nice person, and I think she will do well.”

Let’s all hope Susan Boyle will get much needed rest and begin her recording career soon!

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