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Following her whirlwind trip to New York, Susan Boyle quelled suggestions that she was not coping and lapsing into a breakdown. She said: “I’m happy and doing fine.”

With her album making recording history and debuting at Number One in the UK, and her former Britain’s Got Talent judges voicing their tributes, Boyle reflected on her situation.

“I have never been accepted by the world before. Now I DO feel part of it and I find it really exciting. I feel very content within myself, and as I’m finally achieving my dream, I feel so lucky and privileged.

“I keep asking myself, ‘Is this really happening?’ And I keep expecting someone to say, ‘Ha ha, love, we’re kidding.’”

She explained: “At school, I felt very frustrated, very lonely – people didn’t want to sit next to me in class. I was often bawling my eyes out and it does tend to chip away at your personality.”

Boyle said that her tears in New York were simply being overwhelmed by fans’ responses to her. She also noted that her thumbsucking was part of a gag.

She recalled: “I went to LA and there were great crowds waiting for us at the airport. It was quite something – nothing that a woman like me was used to, for heaven’s sake. But I found Americans to be incredibly warm and friendly.

“It was quite something to be in Hollywood. The hotel I was staying in, apparently Frank Sinatra used to take his women there. And I dipped my toes in the same pool Grace Kelly had been in. This is a world I’d never seen before and never dreamt that I would get to see. I can’t wait to visit again.”