Simon Cowell gave Susan Boyle the option of walking away from her budding music career when he feared she was cracking under the pressure of stardom. Boyle gained international recognition after auditioning for the music mogul’s U.K. TV show “Britain’s Got Talent” in early 2009 – a clip of her singing spread across the internet and gained her legions of dedicated fans. But Cowell admits he hadn’t fully considered the effect Boyle’s sudden rise to fame would have on her and began to fear for the fragile star as the competition reached its final stages. The music mogul became so worried about her state of mind, he offered Boyle the chance to quit the show and return to her native Scotland.
