Jan 19, 2010
I hand transcribed Ms Boyle’s comments but haven’t been able to find a video. Videos here.
Just like you would expect: they mentioned her “deprived of oxygen at birth” and the makeover and the breakdown and they used video footage from previous taping. Really nothing fresh. Oprah only talked to her for 6 minutes and seemed hard-pressed to do that. Completely different interview Oprah had with Adam Lambert. I don’t think Oprah could understand her but at least there were no subtitles.
This post has clips of her previous “appearance” on Oprah and a promo clip for this show that shows Ms Boyle making a face when asked about the “breakdown”.
No mention of Pebbles.
January 21, 2009 was her audition for Britain’s Got Talent in Glasgow and a year later she’s on Oprah.
SUSAN: That was my very first audition. [Makes a face] That’s when I was let loose!
[laughter]
Describe life.
SUSAN: Before the audition, my life was kind of mundane, really. It was really routine, like everyone else’s. But after the audition, people began recognizing me on the street, and I had begun to take myself a bit more seriously as a professional singer.
Oprah of course brings up the hair and makeup, as if Oprah doesn’t spend hours getting ready, and asks Susan what it’s like?
SUSAN: It’s absolutely nice. It’s nice to be pampered. You feel very feminine, very wanted. I scrub up pretty well!
OPRAH: Do you like your new look better than your old look?
SUSAN: My old look resembled a wee waif from Blackburn. This is more professional, more polished. She asks the crowd: Wouldn’t you agree?
[Yes, they did.]
OPRAH asks whether she feels she is who she was born to be.
SUSAN: [couldn't hear too well] Sounds a sort of example to tell people with the same kind of dreams that dreams can come true.
And of course the Priory visit including the picture of her in the vehicle with the flowers.
[Susan speaking on tape.]
OPRAH: How are you handling it now – was it sort of a mini-breakdown?
SUSAN [not happy]: There are two types of exhaustion. There’s exhaustion due to health and exhaustion due to work. I like to be busy, so I was very exhausted because I worked. So I was fine. Absolutely fine. But that’s a chapter of my life which is over with now. You get over that stage and you just get on with your life.
OPRAH: Are you amazed you have sold over 8M records throughout the world?
SUSAN: It’s astounding. It’s very humbling, as well. Because a lot of people take the time and trouble to go out there and spend the money on an album from an unknown artist – they don’t know what they’re going to get for their money. I’m glad they’re pleased with the result. [She turns to the audience] I can only say thank you for your support.
Oprah talks about Susan coming home to an empty house. And that she did “her little dance in the doorway,” which prompted Susan to get up and do her Boyler swivel.
SUSAN: Would you like it again? Are you sure you want this now?
[laughter]
Susan gets out of her seat and does it while saying: “Ok, Piersy Baby”.
[laughter and applause]
Susan calls it the “Boyle wiggle.”
Oprah says she came home to an empty house and had no one to share to with. Surprisingly, Susan didn’t mention Pebbles.
SUSAN [she sounded like a child here]: Well, what actually happened and happened beforehand..my mother and father actually weren’t there because, they weren’t there physically, because they died. In spirit they’re there, though.
OPRAH: Do you feel your mother’s presence?
SUSAN: She’s right here in this room. She would have been really proud of me.
OPRAH: Do you feel that some of that success is because your mother is watching out for you?
SUSAN: I do feel there is a kind of presence. I do feel there is someone there who’s saying, ‘Susan, keep going.’ And that person is my mother. [She looked about to cry.]
OPRAH: We wish you the very best.
SUSAN: Thank you for having me.
