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Bruce[_28_]

In article >,
says...
>
> On 9/7/2016 7:08 PM, Taxed and Spent wrote:
> > On 9/7/2016 4:05 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> >> On 9/7/2016 6:32 PM, Janet wrote:
> >>> In article >,
> >>> says...
> >>>>
> >>>> On 9/7/2016 9:31 AM, Janet wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> IMO Cowell has a great deal to answer for in commercially
> >>>>> exploiting
> >>>>> such a vulnerable person and exposing her to pressures that right from
> >>>>> the start, she couldn't cope with. However, her saving grace is that
> >>>>> she
> >>>>> still lives in her original home and community. Susan Boyle will still
> >>>>> be singing live to people who like to hear her, long after the
> >>>>> entertainment world has forgotten Cowell.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Janet UK
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I don't blame him. She said on stage she wanted to be a professional
> >>>> singer. He gave her the opportunity.
> >>>
> >>> He knew she is mentally impaired and unstable from when she walked on
> >>> stage that very first time. It was apparent in her bizarre behaviour,
> >>> and the face Cowell made. As soon as she hit the headlines her lifetime
> >>> intellectual and social impairments ( braindamaged at birth) was one of
> >>> the most frequently reported things about her. She also has Aspergers .
> >>>
> >>> Janet UK.
> >>>
> >>
> >> So she should not have an opportunity to follow her dream? Success in
> >> not guaranteed and it is hard work. Maybe he did exploit but he also
> >> gave her the chance no one else did.
> >
> > But if you were in that position, wouldn't you have given her the chance
> > WITHOUT exploiting her? Cowell could have done so.
>
> I would hope so, but I'm not in that business so I don't know how it
> works in detail. Nor have we seen her contract.

The contract has a special clause: "If you get mentally completely
messed up during the process, that's alright, because we'll have made
our money and Ed will still defend us."