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Fans in Blackburn, Scotland, watch Susan Boyle on a big-screen TV on Saturday, when she finished second on "Britain's Got Talent." Boyle reportedly is being treated for exhaustion.
Fans in Blackburn, Scotland, watch Susan Boyle on a big-screen TV on Saturday, when she finished second on “Britain’s Got Talent.” Boyle reportedly is being treated for exhaustion.
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LONDON — Singer Susan Boyle was being treated for exhaustion at a mental-health clinic Monday after taking second place in a TV talent competition that turned the humble church volunteer into a global star, the show’s producers and a newspaper said.

Boyle was admitted to London’s Priory Clinic on Sunday, a day after she finished behind a male dance group on the show “Britain’s Got Talent,” the Sun newspaper reported.

“Nobody has had to put up with the kind of attention Susan has had. Nobody could have predicted it,” one of the show’s judges, Piers Morgan, said on a breakfast TV show. “It has been crazy. She has gone from anonymity to being the most downloaded woman in history.” The Associated Press

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