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    ‘I’ve had crushes but never been in love. I suppose I’ve accepted it’s never going to happen. The only thing I regret is not having children. I love kids and I would have liked to have been a mum. I’ve always lived at home and I still live there now. I’ve got the same room I had as a little girl. I am very patient,’ she said. ‘Circum stances can sometimes interrupt what plans you have in your life and you just have to be mature and accept that and wait for something else to come along.
    ‘Mum loved Britain’s Got Talent and used to tell me I should put my name down and that I’d win it if I did. But I never thought I was good enough. It was only after she died two years ago that I plucked up the courage to enter. It was a very dark time and I suffered from depression and anxiety. But out of the darkness came light. I realised I wanted to make her proud of me and the only way to do that was to take the risk and enter the show.’
    And of her school days, when she was bullied, ‘The teachers realised I had a voice and gave me singing parts in plays. It was the one place where I was accepted. It was a nice feeling. I still see the kids I went to schoolwith because we all live in the same area. They’re all grown up with children of their own. But look at me now. I’ve got the last laugh.’
    She used to practise her singing all over the house. ‘I love to belt out tunes in the shower because the sound is so good in the bathroom and I’ve got a piano in the front room to sing with. I used to have a singing teacher and piano lessons once a week, but I had to stop as I couldn’t afford it.’
    Susan recalled how her mother’s death even made her stop singing in the church choir and the karaoke clubs and how she got back into it. ‘When I heard about the auditions for Britain’s Got Talent I decided to get back into singing and start enjoying life again. I wasn’t sure how my voice would sound after so long, but the reception I got from the audience and the judges was fantastic.
    ‘I know I’m an older woman, but I would never have had the confidence to do something like this when I was younger. I’ve definitely improved and got more confident as I’ve got older.’
    She even managed to utter a remark so self-effacing it practically defies belief. ‘I have been long-term unemployed and it is very difficult to find work, especially during a recession. I do voluntary work in the community to get out of the house and keep active, but hopefully this experience will help me find something. I’ve got bills to pay and a house to keep.
    ‘I would like to have a career as a singer but I am justtaking small steps at the moment. I have had great support from people in the village and family, they have just told me to go for it. Obviously, I am not used to all the attention, but I am coping quite well.’
    Just read that again. She had no idea what was coming.

    Perhaps one of the most remarkable aspects of Susan’s rise to fame is its global nature. It would be hard to find anyone so homespun, so thoroughly Scots, so ultra-ordinary British. Yet her appeal was to be universal. By 14 April – Day 3 of ‘The Rest of Her Life’ – she was being interviewed on ABC television news in America.
    Hard on the heels of their reports on the economy and Somali pirates, the award-wining, and prestigious programme, proudly trailed their interview with Susan.
    Their experienced anchorman Charles Gibson, more used to presiding over Presidential Debates, introduced her thus: ‘Finally tonight, a star is born. A most unlikely star. In the world of reality TV, the young and the good looking tend to rule. So, the other night when a not especially young, and with all due respect, rather dowdy lady walked on stage for Britain’s biggest TV talent show, the reaction was harsh. And then, well, hear for yourself. Here’s David Muir.’
    There then followed an interview between Muir, another household name to millions