Star revealed the stresses of catching a flight combined with her Asperger’s led to her panicking
TERRIFIED Susan Boyle last night accused cops of treating her like an animal during her Heathrow airport meltdown.
SuBo revealed the bust-up was sparked by her Asperger’s condition.
But talking exclusively to the Scottish Sun, the singer insists the authorities overreacted and didn’t care about her autism.
Susan, 55, of Blackburn, West Lothian, said: “I was very frightened – it was badly handled.”
The Britain’s Got Talent star says she now has “strategies” in place which allow her to deal with her “bad days”.
We told in April how the singer was at the centre of drama in the BA lounge at London’s Heathrow airport.
She argued with airline staff before cops were called in to deal with the bust-up.
Susan has revealed the stresses of catching a flight combined with her Asperger’s led to her panicking.
But she insists she was mistreated by airport staff and the cops.
She said: “My Asperger’s meant that I was extremely anxious and upset at Heathrow that day. The overcrowding, checking-in, luggage, getting to right gate etc.
“I can’t remember what the argument was about, but I am sorry for my part in it.
“But what I would say is the airport just thought, ‘she’s distressed and disruptive, let’s do something with her’.
“The police shouldn’t have surrounded me like an animal. It made me frightened.
“It didn’t need eight police officers, I’m only 5’2”. They should’ve gone away.”
The I Dreamed A Dream singer was flying home to Scotland with her PA when things kicked off.
Witnesses say she kept repeating “I’ve done nothing wrong” as police turned up.
They led her away from the terminal before she was later driven home to Scotland by a pal.
Susan has now revealed one of Simon Cowell’s close colleagues was also in the lounge and could have easily fixed the situation.
She said: “The head of Syco’s media was there and my PA but the police wouldn’t let him see them.
“That was wrong, they didn’t understand about my condition. I was upset yes but all I needed was someone to talk to me.
“All I can say to BA is am sorry what happened that day. But the treatment of me was hellish. Not letting me on a plane so I had to be driven home.
“It was humiliating and degrading. It is known I have Asperger’s.
“The way they were with me made it so much worse.”
The incident came just three weeks after a similar episode at Derry Airport.
She had been travelling with her brother John who is understood to have left her on her own to fly home.
Passengers say heard Susan scream “Help me” before staff took her away. A friend travelled over from Scotland to then fly back with her.
But Susan – who is blindly loyal to John and her eldest brother Gerry – refused to talk about that incident.
She said: “Derry was a personal thing I don’t want to talk about.”
