Times Online article

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"Her friends and family may have been very well meaning," says Dr Pam Spurr, a behavioural expert, "but they will have had no idea of the things they should or shouldn't have been saying to her. They could have been saying 'You're going to win, you're going to win'. It becomes very one-sided. Win or it's all lost. And she didn't."

Then again, for the past few months perhaps everybody has been a bit lost. Max Clifford, the publicist, doesn't represent Susan Boyle but does represent Simon Cowell, her new Svengali. "This is an unique situation," he says. "I have worked with the biggest stars in the world. Nobody has ever become world famous this instantly before. With Paul Potts (Britain's Got Talent, 2007) it happened quickly but nothing like as quick as this. Total obscurity to world fame in seconds. Nobody knows how to handle this because it has never happened before. We're all learning. Simon's learning. None of us saw it coming."

Boyle was admitted to the Priory Clinic in North London on Sunday, after an unspecified incident at the Crowne Plaza hotel, Central London. The police have confirmed that officers attended to help "doctors assessing a woman under the Mental Health Act", and the London Ambulance Service said that its staff had been there, too. She is not thought to have been sectioned. All the same, by the end of yesterday it was considered unlikely that she would be taking part in the Britain's Got Talent live tour, which starts on June 12, or that she would undertake a planned trip to the US. Pam Spurr is not surprised. "If she has had any sort of breakdown," she says, "three weeks is not a very long time."

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The British jargon--officers helping doctors--that seems to be the wrong way round, and "sectioned"--is this categorized for a particular treatment or wing of the hospital? None of this should be available to the public or press, so I don't expect an answer except what these terms mean in the UK.

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Max Clifford says. . . . What Boyle needs now, he says, is people from home. "People close to her, whom she has been close to for many years. People who are happy to be in that situation. As opposed to being on her own, isolated, surrounded by television and music executives. These are people who understand the machinations of the media but they don't understand her. She comes from a different planet."

Clifford says that he can't see Boyle ever being able to live a quiet life again. "But I keep reminding people," he says, "she put herself forward. She wanted to be on stage. Right up until last week, when the tabloids turned on her, she was loving the whole process. Simon sees the most important thing as her being happy and fulfilled, whether she is pursuing a career or not."

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It's a much longer article, taking detours through various lives altered by sensational fame.

SRS