Lucy Spraggan reveals she can only speak to Simon Cowell via his partner Lauren Silverman for an unusual reason despite their close bond
Lucy Spraggan has revealed she can only speak to Simon Cowell through his partner Lauren Silverman despite their close bond.
The singer, 33, and the music mogul, 65, have developed a good friendship over the years with Simon even walking Lucy down the aisle at her wedding to Emilia Smith.
But contacting Simon doesn't come easy as the former X Factor star admitted he doesn't have his own mobile phone.
Speaking to The Sun, she said: 'I speak to Lauren all the time. But Simon hasn't got a phone so I speak to him when she's on the phone!'
However, Lucy and her wife have stayed with Simon and Lauren in their luxurious homes in LA and the Cotswolds on several occasions and they've even gone on holiday to Barbados together.
Lucy recalled: 'He read a poem at our ceremony, which was cute. And he said to me, 'I love seeing you this happy'.
It appears Simon's son Eric is taking after his father in the music department as Lucy told how the 11-year-old gave her advice on her new album Other Sides Of The Moon which was released on Friday.
She said: 'Eric actually gave me advice for the drums for this album. He's like a mini Simon. He's very funny. He's very, very smart and he knows exactly what he wants that kid.'
The singer didn't meet Simon while she was taking part in The X Factor in 2012 because he wasn't a judge on her series.
The pair didn't become friends until years later in 2021 after Simon reached out to her under less than happy circumstances.
In 2023, Lucy revealed that during her time on The X Factor, she was raped by a porter in the hotel room where she was staying after partying with Rylan Clark.
At the time, when she quit the show, it was said to be down to illness.
Revealing the assault for the first time in her autobiography, Process, she explained the illness was the strong side effects of PEP medication - a drug given to her by doctors which can prevent someone contracting HIV.
On why she decided to reveal the truth 11 years on, Lucy confessed: 'It was scary for sure, it was terrifying, but I knew that if I put it out there - everything - there was absolutely nothing I have to hide from.
'People picked up on that and they said "thank you for talking about this thing, or that thing, because it made me feel really full of shame, and I haven't got any shame about anything".
'And I think that's a nice place to be.'
Simon later reached out and apologised for how she was treated on the ITV show, with Lucy then admitting: 'His apology healed a part of my being that I didn't know needed healing.'
Asked how it felt receiving the apology, she mused: 'I think whether forgiveness is easy or not depends on the person.
'It's a lot easier to forgive somebody when they apologise, and that's something that's really big for me. I do a lot of work on forgiveness in general.
'They say like hating people is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
'Truly in my life right now, there is nobody that I don't forgive and there's nobody that I don't wish, peace and health for in this world.'
Lucy, who was previously married to Georgina Gordon before their split in 2019, told how she and Emilia have no plans to have children.
Married life has inspired her music, witt the title of her latest album inspired by her love story.
Discussing her relationship with her wife, she recently told MailOnline: 'We'd been friends for like 10 years. Then at the same time we looked at each other and thought "I'm in love with you."
'Then I wrote the song Other Sides Of The Moon and it's about looking at the same moon.
'We'd been looking at the same moon all the time, but we were just on other sides of it. Now we're on the same side.'
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