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Susan Boyle: 'I'm haunted by my mother's ghost'
Published Saturday, Dec 10 2011, 20:31 GMT | By Daniel Sperling | 6 comments
Susan Boyle has claimed that the ghost of her late mother haunts her childhood home.
The 'I Dreamed a Dream' singer claimed to have seen the spirit of her mother Bridget, who died in 2007 at the age of 91, around the council house in Blackburn the two shared.
"Her energy is still there," she told The Sun. "I've actually seen my mother in the house.
"I think she was letting me know she was all right. There was a lovely smell. Perhaps it was her perfume, I'm not sure."
Boyle said that she is grateful to still feel her mother's presence, as she felt "lonely" and "abandoned" as her loved ones gradually passed away.
"I used to think [my mum] abandoned me when she died. Maybe she was telling me she hadn't," Boyle commented. "My biggest problem is I feel lonely, especially at night. I always had a fear of being alone and now I am.
"Everybody died and left me by myself. There was one period within a few years, where my dad, my uncle, my sister, then my mum died. It's as if I was working with a few building blocks and those blocks were scattered and I had to find them one by one."
Boyle previously revealed that she stopped singing as she tried to cope with the "pain" of her mother's death.
> Susan Boyle interview: 'I'm backing Amelia Lily to win The X Factor'
Watch Susan Boyle perfom 'Unchained Melody' below:
The 'I Dreamed a Dream' singer claimed to have seen the spirit of her mother Bridget, who died in 2007 at the age of 91, around the council house in Blackburn the two shared.
"Her energy is still there," she told The Sun. "I've actually seen my mother in the house.
"I think she was letting me know she was all right. There was a lovely smell. Perhaps it was her perfume, I'm not sure."
Boyle said that she is grateful to still feel her mother's presence, as she felt "lonely" and "abandoned" as her loved ones gradually passed away.
"I used to think [my mum] abandoned me when she died. Maybe she was telling me she hadn't," Boyle commented. "My biggest problem is I feel lonely, especially at night. I always had a fear of being alone and now I am.
"Everybody died and left me by myself. There was one period within a few years, where my dad, my uncle, my sister, then my mum died. It's as if I was working with a few building blocks and those blocks were scattered and I had to find them one by one."
Boyle previously revealed that she stopped singing as she tried to cope with the "pain" of her mother's death.
> Susan Boyle interview: 'I'm backing Amelia Lily to win The X Factor'
Watch Susan Boyle perfom 'Unchained Melody' below:
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