The music mogul struggled to hold back tears as he told British star Steven Bartlett “losing both my parents was the hardest thing that has ever happened to me” on The Diary Of A CEO podcast. Cowell spoke about the “devastation” he felt after the death of his father Eric in 1999 from a heart attack and his mother Julie, who suffered with dementia, in 2015 – before being told he was expecting a baby. From working in the post room at a record label to becoming the world’s best-known music mogul, this is the incredible story of .
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. — Steven Bartlett (@StevenBartlett) “I had reached the point where nothing mattered,” he said of his grief. “Particularly when I lost my mum, I was on a downward spiral at that point.
It was like I’d lost everyone, everything just meant nothing at that point. “I was desperately unhappy, I wasn’t particularly enjoying my work, I just thought I would just become a vampire and I would work through until 7am or 8am in the morning, I would wake up at 2pm or 3pm in the afternoon.” Cowell said he still suffers from depression “at times”, but had “really suffered” in the past.
“The hardest part was being on television as well, I feel like a clown there because I was dying inside and yet I’ve got to do what I’m being paid to do, as best as I could,” the Britain’s Got Talent ju.