The “Memory” singer said she’s “had a lot of speech therapy” since suffering the health emergency in 2022.

Susan Boyle opens up about ‘difficult’ recovery after suffering stroke: ‘I’m taking wee baby steps’

The “Memory” singer said she’s “had a lot of speech therapy” since suffering the health emergency in 2022.

By Emlyn Travis

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Susan Boyle at Pride of Scotland Awards in 2025. Credit:

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- Susan Boyle is detailing her "difficult" recovery experience after suffering a minor stroke in April 2022.

- The singer explained that the health scare impacted her ability to both speak and sing.

- “It was difficult at first, but after the first few weeks, my voice slowly started to come back. I have been having a lot of vocal lessons, too, for my singing," she said.

Susan Boyle is speaking openly about her health after suffering a minor stroke in April 2022.

The “I Dreamed a Dream” singer explained in an interview with *The Sun* on Friday that the medical emergency impacted her ability to both sing and speak and that she is currently taking “wee baby steps” to get her voice back.

“It feels surreal to be here now,” Boyle told the outlet. “I never thought I would be able to come this far. I’ve had a lot of encouragement and the public have been so ­loving to me.”

Susan Boyle at the Pride of Britain Awards in 2025.

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Still, she acknowledged that it hadn’t been an easy journey to get here.

“I have had a lot of speech therapy,” Boyle said. “It was difficult at first, but after the first few weeks, my voice slowly started to come back. I have been having a lot of vocal lessons, too, for my singing.”

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The* Britain’s Got Talent *alum admitted that while her voice “still needs some work,” she is “sure my singing voice will come back” in the future.

“I am taking wee baby steps,” she said. “If you go too fast, too soon, you go down a hole. It took a while for my confidence to come back with my music. But I am getting there. Slowly.”

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Boyle first revealed that she’d had a stroke after performing live on *Britain’s Got Talent *with the West End cast of Les Misérables* *in 2023.

"It's actually special for me, because last April, I suffered a minor stroke," she said at the time. "I fought like crazy to get back on stage, and I have done it."

Simon Cowell, who was present for Boyle’s original audition on the series, called her return after the health scare an “unbelievable” triumph.

"Susan, we owe you so much, and I knew you weren't well, but, if anyone was going to come back, you were going to come back," he said.

Susan Boyle in Louisville, Ky., in 2014.

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Boyle has since made a return to music, singing in not one, but two separate ads for Scottish soda company Irn-Bru as well as Italian ice-cream company Cornettos.

"Music is my life," she told *The Sun*. "When I couldn't do it, I really missed it, so I can't tell you how good it feels to return."

Boyle also expressed interest in going on another tour in the future and teased, "I think I have got another album in me, for sure. It is something I do want to do, so I say, ‘Bring it on.'"

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