Susan Boyle`s father stopped her having a boyfriend
 The 49-year-old singer - who famously declared she had never been kissed when she appeared on UK TV talent show `Britain`s Got Talent` - struck up a "chaste" romance with a man named John, only for her late dad Patrick to ask him to stop calling.
She recalled: "In my late 20s I had a boyfriend for seven weeks. He was called John. I met him at a wedding and it was the first time I was involved with anyone, because I was always frightened of guys, but he was very kind.
"It was a chaste relationship that never went further than holding hands and a peck on the cheek. But when I held his hand, I knew it was a different feeling from holding my mother`s hand, and when he pecked me on the cheek it wasn`t like my brother giving me a kiss, because the touch of my boyfriend`s lips lingered on my skin for hours.
"One day I was upstairs when the phone rang. My dad got to it first. `She doesn`t want to talk to you,` he said and put down the receiver. `Who was that?` I asked him. `You`re no ready for a boyfriend, hen!` said my dad."
Despite her unhappiness, the `Wild Horses` hitmaker understands the action taken by her father.
She added in her forthcoming new book `The Woman I Was Born To Be`: "I suppose dad was right that I wasn`t mature enough for a relationship. He just wanted to protect me from getting hurt, but it did hurt when we stopped seeing each other." |
