Susan Boyle was bullied as a kid

Susan Boyle reveals she was bullied at school by teachers and classmates.

Boyle still lives in the family home, a four-bedroom council house, with her 10-year-old cat, Pebbles.

Her father died in the 1990s, and her siblings had left home. Boyle never married, and she cared for her ageing mother until she died in 2007 at the age of 91, which meant that she never had any time for herself.

A neighbour reported that when Bridget Boyle died, her daughter “wouldn’t come out for three or four days or answer the door or phone.”

Boyle remains active as a volunteer at Our Lady of Lourdes church in Blackburn, visiting elderly members of the congregation in their homes.