Reply #32: ‘Drained’ Susan Boyle treated for exhaustion [View All]

LONDON - Singer Susan Boyle was being treated for exhaustion at a mental health clinic Monday after taking second place in a TV talent competition that turned the humble church volunteer into a global star, the show’s producers and a newspaper said.

Boyle was admitted to London’s Priory Clinic on Sunday, a day after she finished behind a male dance group on the show “Britain’s Got Talent,” the Sun newspaper reported.

“Nobody has had to put up with the kind of attention Susan has had. Nobody could have predicted it,” one of the show’s judges, Piers Morgan, told breakfast TV show GMTV. “It has been crazy, she has gone from anonymity to being the most downloaded woman in history.”

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Does this answer your question? It looks as if she had a nervous breakdown from all the press she's been getting. The British media makes the American MSM look kind and gentle by comparison. I saw it on the Today show this morning.

meow2u3's question: I wonder if Susan Boyle has some form of autistic spectrum disorder. That might explain her social awkwardness and the fact she cracked under the pressure of the press.