SIMON COWELL SAYS SON SAVED HIM

BY JAMES SMITH

TV Mogul Simon Cowell believes his son saved his life after his work obsession left him depressed. The man responsible for huge hit shows The X Factor and Britain's Got Talent, admitted he was really unhappy in life until his son with wife Lauren Silverman was born 8 years ago.

"Before Eric, my life was 99 per cent work I was obsessed with it," said the 63-year old. "I got to that point where everything was about, If you're not rating against this then you're a failure' and I stopped enjoying what I was doing and I was miserable the whole time." "I was obsessed with beating the competition. I took it to a ridiculous level and I would get really down about that stuff, to the point I was depressed."

Simon said his obsession made him come up with ridiculous ideas like the six-chair challenge for The X Factor, which ended in December 2018.

"Should we have ended the show sooner? Maybe. We could have done, yeah. That last year was very much an ego driven thing. We had to be better than everyone else, but I didn't enjoy it. I was really unhappy. But now Eric is around, I don't work through the night anymore."

"If he hadn't come along, God knows what would have happened."

Source: Huffpost